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How can we collectively grow a greener marketplace?
Posted on Apr 27th, 2007
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Lucente
Lucente
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for April 27, 2007:
We can't. The message consumers send when they spend record amounts of time and money lined up at fast-food restaurants and shopping the prepackaged (chemical-laden) food aisles while demanding low prices over nutrition, or food quality and fair wages: Wellness (on any level—personal or environment) is not my priority!
If we are not willing to invest the time in nutritional food preparation and consumption, we can claim all we want that we care about the planet. No one will believe us. And why would they? And why would we even expect the management and stockholders of a corporation to do what we will not with the most vital and "profit-potential" resource we have to manage and invest in?
Questions regarding taking care of God's Creation, conservation, etc. are certainly excellent points to ponder. However, to "grow a greener marketplace" we must commit to wellness for ourselves, our children and our homes (i.e. cleaning products, lawn and garden chemicals — too much stuff — the plague of conspicuous consumption, etc.).
Wanna grow a greener marketplace? Stock your kitchen with locally grown vegetables and fruits, bake whole grain breads and cookies, eat meat that is not laced with chemicals, enjoy eggs from hens who strut under the sun, and drink purified water. You will simply be amazed how much better you feel and good food can actually taste! :-)
Sound impossible? Even ridiculous? Then simply start by choosing packaged foods with less than three ingredients or certainly only ingredients you can pronounce.
Heck, give up anything with corn syrup (the key ingredient used to cut "food" production costs and the ingredient that ensures a continued increase of heart disease and Type 2 diabetes, thus ensuring increases to the already obscene profit margins for drug companies ...).
Have a great (and reduced chemical) day! Find a farmer's market this weekend and enjoy the taste of "real food" (and enjoy the idea that you are contributing to a "greener marketplace").
If we are not willing to invest the time in nutritional food preparation and consumption, we can claim all we want that we care about the planet. No one will believe us. And why would they? And why would we even expect the management and stockholders of a corporation to do what we will not with the most vital and "profit-potential" resource we have to manage and invest in?
Questions regarding taking care of God's Creation, conservation, etc. are certainly excellent points to ponder. However, to "grow a greener marketplace" we must commit to wellness for ourselves, our children and our homes (i.e. cleaning products, lawn and garden chemicals — too much stuff — the plague of conspicuous consumption, etc.).
Wanna grow a greener marketplace? Stock your kitchen with locally grown vegetables and fruits, bake whole grain breads and cookies, eat meat that is not laced with chemicals, enjoy eggs from hens who strut under the sun, and drink purified water. You will simply be amazed how much better you feel and good food can actually taste! :-)
Sound impossible? Even ridiculous? Then simply start by choosing packaged foods with less than three ingredients or certainly only ingredients you can pronounce.
Heck, give up anything with corn syrup (the key ingredient used to cut "food" production costs and the ingredient that ensures a continued increase of heart disease and Type 2 diabetes, thus ensuring increases to the already obscene profit margins for drug companies ...).
Have a great (and reduced chemical) day! Find a farmer's market this weekend and enjoy the taste of "real food" (and enjoy the idea that you are contributing to a "greener marketplace").
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