Oh how the times have changed…
March 24th, 2010. Published under Main Content. No Comments.
Do you remember the days of going to the grocery store, when you could just go to the meat section and choose a piece of meat with some degree of confidence that you’re actually getting the real thing. As in, getting a piece of meat that wasn’t injected with growth hormones or some super feed?
Or how about the days when “natural” and “artificial” flavoring wasn’t even in our vocabulary. Or perhaps when you saw a label that something had anything “natural” in it, you were confident that it was, well… natural.
Oh how the times have changed.
Nowadays going to the super market and actually reading the ingredients on the food that you buy can be like reading a short novel. With so many chemicals and lab produced foods and flavors, it’s no wonder why the US is currently the fattest country in the world according to NationMaster.com (I admittedly have no idea how accurate they are).
Over the last 20-30 years our food supply has become industrialized. In fact, chances are most people my age have NEVER had beef from a grass fed cattle. Pretty shocking if you ask me. Especially considering the cattle’s current feed, corn, is so terrible for the cattle that it literally destroys their internal organs.
Yup, cows aren’t supposed to eat corn. They’re supposed to eat grass just like all those pictures you see on your dairy products (and nope, those cows generally aren’t fed grass either).
It’s truly amazing to me what we’ve done.
We now live in a country where people go to fast food restaurants to eat off their value meals because it’s CHEAPER to buy a cheeseburger than it is to buy food at a grocery store and make it yourself. And that’s not even if you want to eat organic foods which is a whole other topic all together.
I’m truly shocked at what is our current reality.
Now in my last blog post I said this blog is going to take on a different direction and I’m sorry to say I kind of lied.
I’m not going to dedicate this blog to my insane obsession that is our food supply.
Instead, I’m going to be creating a completely new blog to do it. To share all of my findings and merely inform you and anyone else willing to listen of what the reality is that we live in.
Be on the lookout. I’ll post the new link soon.
Cheers,
–Curt
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