FertilehealthyAiming for success, not perfection…

I’m often pleasantly surprised by Hollywood. In movies like Wall-E, Idiocracy, The Day After Tomorrow, The Day The Earth Stood Still, The Matrix, etc., they comment on our current lifestyles and where it may lead us. The outcomes are often frightening, but we just have another fistful of popcorn, swig our Cokes and say, “Wow! Great movie! Loved the special effects!“  Only in the movies, right?

Wrong.

We are headed towards a disaster far more serious and dramatic than even Hollywood can foresee.  And it will probably take place in our children’s lifetime.  Every area of our existence is accelerating us towards an unimaginable tragedy – our energy consumption, our blatant disregard for the very earth that sustains us, our insatiable greed, our reliance on medical technology instead of sound living, our laziness, our cruelty, our treatment of the poor, our treatment of one another, our incredible arrogance, our poisons, our food culture and our quest for more, more, more.  But most of all, our willingness to turn a blind eye towards what is happening.

The signs that we are getting closer to the abyss are many – the melting ice-caps, severe weather phenomena, species going extinct every day, world hunger, disease and infertility. There are two types of disease – diseases of poverty and diseases of affluence.  Diseases of poverty happen to poor people, generally in the Third World.  They are caused by malnutrition, infection and lack of sanitation.  Diseases of affluence are also caused by malnutrition.  They are obesity, heart disease, cancer, diabetes, depression, auto-immune diseases and conditions like Alzheimer’s.

We can no longer look at our leaders to protect us and our children.  They are not governing us anymore.  The people with the money are and they are the faceless corporations that will tell you anything, no matter how blatantly untrue or how bad it is for you, to make you buy their products.  To them we have only economic value.

But we are worth more than that!  We are human beings!  We are fearfully and wonderfully made.

We can no longer fiddle while Rome is burning…  There is no point in trying to become fertile if there is nothing but pain and misery for our children to inherit.  Change begins with us.

The first step is to start seeking the truth and exposing the lies.

There are many excellent documentaries out there and today I want to share the trailer of Food, Inc with you.  Visit the website, see where it’s being shown and go and see it!

The movie features interviews with experts such as Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto) along with forward thinking social entrepeneurs like Stonyfield’s Gary Hirschberg and Polyface Farm’s Joel Salatin.   Food, Inc reveals surprising – and often shocking – truths about what we eat, how it’s produced, who we  have become as a society and where we’re going from here.

(Trailer of the video here – does not show up in Reader)

Your choices in every area of your life, even your food choices, can make the difference… Inform yourself!

PS.  I just came across a very interesting television interview with Michael Pollan, where he talks about swine flu, Michelle Obama’s organic garden, Secretary Vilsack, GMO foods and the latest ploys by the food industry.   He says that his previous tenet of not eating foods with more than five ingredients has now been circumvented by some food manufacturers.  His latest advice is to never buy food that you’ve seen advertised.  The interview is well worth the time.

PPS.  An interesting article from La Vida Locavore that relates – ConAgra to You:  Drop Dead (But Don’t Blame Us).