| TOXIC FOOD, TOXIC PLANET, OUR LEGACY? |
| The more I read and hear of the news and listen to people around me talking, the angrier I get. The cause of this anger is food, all food right down to the humble pea! Britain at this moment is in the grip of Foot and Mouth Disease, having just lately recovered (just) from the BSE (mad cow disease) crisis. Now, I am a caring mother and grandmother and I don't want to risk the effects this threat would have on my family, so I decided that I would stick to cooking chicken and fish. Problem solved! Until I remembered that the risk of salmonella poisoning from chicken and eggs is still very much around. Like the proverbial snowball all thinking started to get out of control. Where can I buy a fish that I am 100% sure has not been contaminated by effluence, industrial waste, oil spillage or toxic chemicals? The same goes for our fruit and vegetables, besides all the unnatural additives as mentioned before with the fish, what about the rain? How do we know what is raining down on us and our food? I'm angry about all of this because we have brought it upon ourselves. How dare we behave in such an arrogant manner and think that whatever we throw at this world it will forgive us and allow us to go on as the intellectually dominant species? We blindly go on allowing farmers to feed their animals with the most awful cocktails of feed including animal tissue and waste. These animals are herbivores and are unable to digest and process carnivorous fare, and ALL farmers know this. We go on allowing companies to dump their waste products into our oceans and seas, somehow believing that it will all disappear on it's own ! Why do we do these awful things to our Mother Earth? The answer is very simple, MONEY. I am as guilty as everyone else on this planet. I want to pay as little as I can for my foodbill, I want petrol for my car, I want the plastics that make up my television and my computer and all the little luxury items I have become used to. BUT, someday it has to stop! What kind of inheritance am I leaving for my grandchildren? They are going to curse our generation for the state we've left their home in. I have no answers, I wish I had, I want to do something but am at a loss as to know what that something is. I am angry and sad, but it looks as if I'll be this way for many years to come. Shamefully, Ruby. |
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