It was reported this week that Chick-Fil-A president Dan Cathy publicly declared that Chick-Fil-A is in support of “traditional” marriage and family, and that attempting to define marriage in other ways is “inviting God’s judgment.” This might mark Chick-Fil-A’s as the first anti-gay chicken sandwiches in the nation. In response to the Chick-Fil-A statement, other fast food chains quickly voiced their positions, gathered in the graphic above.
It’s really quite simple – the *Standard American Diet* (SAD) is responsible for most diseases. Simply put, we are eating ourselves into poor health, chronic disease and early death.
It just a few minutes, this clip will put everything into perspective. A few changes to your diet can mean the difference between health or sickness and even life or death.
This is not what the mainstream media / corporate controlled government health system will discuss. Why you ask? Well, as usual —– follow the money. We are far more profitable sick. They cannot profit on healthy or dead people. Every industry involved with health care, those big businesses, research and development, cancer for example, that keep taking your donations to find a cure which never comes.
So how did I feel standing in that Whole Foods line?
I felt naked, raw and at the same time, dignified. I felt in my element but sensed the deep unknown beyond, as if I were a fish swimming at the edge of my school. I felt lonely, facing unfamiliar space, where no signposts, ground or structure are evident. I felt vulnerable, entering vast, unknown territory. But a big smile was dawning, a smile of compassion. As Trungpa Rinpoche and Pema Chodron had taught me, I can smile at fear, rather than cringe.
A cheeseburger cannot exist outside of a highly developed, post-agrarian society. It requires a complex interaction between a handful of vendors—in all likelihood, a couple of dozen—and the ability to ship ingredients vast distances while keeping them fresh. The cheeseburger couldn’t have existed until nearly a century ago as, indeed, it did not.
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There’s some fundamental good in eating honestly, I think. Of knowing where your food comes from—raising it yourself, when you can—and trying to eat foods that could theoretically have existed a century ago. But you can’t take that but so far, or else the whole thing breaks down. As Carl Sagan wrote in Cosmos, “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
via Waldo Jaquith – On the impracticality of a cheeseburger..
11-year-old Birke Baehr presents his take on a major source of our food — far-away and less-than-picturesque industrial farms. Keeping farms out of sight promotes a rosy, unreal picture of big-box agriculture, he argues, as he outlines the case to green and localize food production.
via Birke Baehr: What’s wrong with our food system | Video on TED.com.
Russian vegetable carver Anastasia Korsakova makes finishing touches on her work on September 5, 2011 during the first European carving competition in Leipzig, eastern Germany. The competition is taking place during the “Gaeste” trade fair for the restaurant, hotel and catering business running until September 6, 2011. Within four hours, competitors have to carve in front of the jury’s eyes a piece from melons, papayas, stem cabbage, cucumbers, radish, carrots and Chinese cabbage. (JAN WOITAS/AFP/Getty Images)
In this photo taken Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2011, a man looks at a motorcycle figure made of lobsters’ shells created by Taiwanese food carving artist Huang Mingbo during his lecture in Fuzhou in southeast China’s Fujian province. (AP Photo)
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