Food Fight
Mankind has evolved to a modern creature who is hooked on convenience. Fast food and processed, pacakaged food has become an adopted component of our on the go lifestyles. Unfortunately, all the stuff that adds shelf life to those foods, robs us of our shelf-life.
Poor choice foods have been linked to triggering or exaggerating many health complications, and returning to 'closer to nature' versions is becoming a trend. Christians should value God made over man-made.
It is time to take a good hard look at what the food industry is pushing through advertising and on the top levels of supermarket shelves, and through pricing. Processed foods do seem more affordable and are promoted as healthy options, while unprocessed, or limited processed, non-GMO options are more expensive and hardly promoted.
This truly is a food fight people, and we are the casualties of that war. Before you complain about why healthier food options are expensive, think about why the processed ones are cheaper. Synthetic, factory manufactured foods are easier to mass produce over locally grown, GMO free, organic options and always will be. In the end, the real fight is not in our wallets, but in the hospital wards.
We need to fight back! We need to be more pro-active about the foods we buy and choose to consume and give to our families. Every dollar you spend on healthy choices has better long-term impact on our overall health, on the cost of our health care, in recuperation down-time, and in our energy levels. You vote with your dollars and it is time to take this fight to where it matters most - to the wallets of the food producers. If we tell them we want healthy, they will eventually give us more options at more affordable prices IF they want to keep us shopping at their stores.