It’s an interesting affair, today’s food industry. Here in America you see people mostly eating fast foods and various other unhealthy things. Most people would say they eat that because its what they can afford. My whole like my mother has struggled to keep the food in the house organic but nowadays you don’t really know what you’re getting. You never really know if this chicken grew up on a farm or if it was raised in a dark warehouse crowded by way too many other chickens in unhealthy conditions surviving off hormones and antibiotics. I think it’s usually the former. It utterly disgusts me. I like eating meat, I was a vegetarian for two years and I got tired of it, but when I think about where this stuff im eating is coming from I want to give up meat again.
It also really bothers me that it’s not even really and option in this country, to have clean healthy 100% organic foods, no GMO’s and antibiotic raised cows. If you want to eat healthy which probably isn’t really healthy at all you’ve got to spend a ton of money, which brings me back to my first point. Most people go for those fast foods and disgusting options because that’s what’s readily available to them so its what they eat. That disgusts me even more, on top of all the things America isn’t doing for its people (who aren’t rich white men that is) Americas people are not being provided with acceptably healthy foods.
I will admit that I am not the healthiest person, but I do try to eat healthy and I personally think organic food tastes millions of times better than the fake steroid stuff. This summer I was on a friends 100% organic farm. We walked out into the field as the sun blazed on our shoulders, I put my hand over my eyes to block it and squinted to the other end of the field where we were headed. It seemed like miles in that heat. We walked along the rows passing eggplants and cucumbers and all sorts of delicious smells and sights. We came to our destination finally, drenched in sweat and utterly parched, at the melon patch. We walked up the rows scanning the leaves for a big green pill-shaped watermelon. We found the perfect one that even looked juicy and was hot from the sun. Impatient to eat it we set off in search of a knife, back through the field to the house. Before we had so much as cleared a foot outside the field the melon fell, breaking in two. It looked so juicy and ripe and red and delicious that we didn’t even stop to think before sinking in out teeth right then and there and devouring the whole watermelon as the juice dripped all over us and quenched us of out heat and thirst. I think that was one of the most delicious things ive ever eaten. Except maybe some home cooked gourmet French food, but everything’s delicious there.
I guess it partially comes from living in a city but I’m sure most people in America still eat that unhealthy GMO crap and fast food, unless they live on or around a farm or in the middle of no where. I just really wish that there was that good farm stuff available everywhere. I hate that for most people in America that good stuff just isn’t even an option…
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