The True Cost of Toxic Food
BY ZEN L HONEYCUTT
Founding Executive Director of
Moms Across America
We all just want convenience and for our families to be happy. So we often buy that easy, cheap, tasty fast food, frozen meal or go to a restaurant serving the Standard American Diet (S.A.D) foods...French fries, burgers, pizza, fried chicken with macaroni and cheese. Because it feels good. It feels good to see our kids be happy eating food they like and if it was convenient for us to give it to them, it feels like a double win.
Until there are signs of one or more of our family members losing. I saw signs of this when my eldest son suddenly got very still, his lips turned white-ish, blood drained from his face and he had trouble breathing after eating onion rings at Red Robin.
And again, later when my middle son broke out in a full body rash when he ate Trader Joe’s popcorn (I suspect the olive oil was not 100% olive oil but a canola mixture instead) at his friend’s house.
And when my youngest son's face swelled up and his eyes became leaky with tears and red when we were in a restaurant with peanuts on the floor for 20 minutes. Our children should not be having life threatening reactions to food.
These incidents, along with autism symptoms, asthmatic reactions, and an ER visit due to food reactions, were all around seven years ago or more. They have not happened since because we know to eat organic, restore the gut microbiome regularly with sauerkraut, pre and probiotics, and detox regularly.
But many people do not know how, do not take the time to take on these practices, or simply do not have the resources to buy organic and supplement. Millions are struggling now just to get food on the table. Our government support is primarily cheap, processed, non-organic, and therefore toxic, food.
The majority of the food Americans eat and are given in times of need, according to over 7800 food sample tests conducted by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and many other organizations on American and Canadian foods, have glyphosate residues on them.