We all do it.  We all have to have it.  Without it, 99.9+% of humanity would perish.  What is it?  Food and water!  Unless one is a breatharian, living literally on air, we all eat and drink something some time.  We have likes and dislikes.  Every culture, every nation, every era.  We identify ourselves by our food.  One of the ways to a man’s heart is said to be through his stomach.  We get to know one another by breaking bread.  Having a person at our table is a sign of acceptance and love.  We eat for nutrition, pleasure, community, relaxation, indulgence, habit, compensation, sublimation.  

     The best food to eat is the real stuff, which means it’s authentic, organic and holistic.  These days, descriptions of what passes for food has almost spun out of control.  Advertisers play fast and loose with language, seeking to befuddle people.  What is meant by natural?  How can proponents of white sugar call it “natural” when it is a processed product with most of the innate nutritious elements yanked out?  What many people eat in this country has become nonfood:  irradiated, genetically engineered-mutilated (genfood, GMO), chemicalized, denatured, toxified, sometimes downright poisonous.  When butterflies die from the effluvium coming from plants such as some of the Roundup Ready (chemically engineered seeds and chemical fertilizer) foods, this is both un-natural and outright dangerous.  “There had been some promotional hype about this type of food being cheaper to grow and feeding the world’s millions, yet examination of this faulty hypothesis shows it to be a lie, created by the very people who would make money by its usage.   Follow the money trail, and see who is saying what about anything. 

     Freedom has been the rallying cry of this country since before its inception.  It is ever used to gather and motivate people.  Most Americans claim and like to believe that we are the freest people on the planet.  In some ways, this is true.  In others, it is fallacious.  When it is legal to keep food from being labeled as genfood, or GMO, or genetically engineered, so people can make informed decisions, this is an abridgment of our freedom to know, to choose, and to eat healthful, real, delicious food.  Vegetarians and omnivores eating tomatoes, corn or soybeans expect the food’s entire genetic makeup to be that of tomatoes, corn or soybeans.  It is a radical infringement of our freedom, well-being and pursuit of happiness, guaranteed in the Constitution and Bill of Rights, to find we have been eating something that has genetic DNA of insects and other unexpected material within it .   

     Throughout mainstream media, fast food has been advertised and promoted as though it’s a fashion or fad.   Big money goes into this.   The mainstream intake of “nonfood” has led to the U.S. being one of the most overweight countries in the country, with more money being spent on diets, exercise and plastic surgery than anywhere else on Earth.  This is due to conflicting advertising, media messages and cultural habits, propagated by faulty thinking.  That adage, you are what you eat, has much truth.   Eat badly, create negative health.  Eat well, create good health.