Pay for organic, & bacon!

I am surprised every-time I go grocery shopping now. I have been specifically reading labels & looking for organic foods. I've bought organic fed & cage free eggs, Muir Glen's organic diced tomatoes, Rubi's organic bread, & salad dressing. This feels like a great start, plus I saw organic milk, too. I know many folks would like to buy organically, but are concerned of the cost. Yes- It going to cost you a bit more (some things more than others), but I think the monetary cost is worth more than the cost of unforeseen unhealthy aftermath of foods loaded with pesticides, chemical fertilizers, and GMOs. Also, I am going to try & do better to not waste food- We are guilty here of buying more than we can use before it goes bad :-( Shameful, I know.

One place I've been discouraged is with bacon- we really enjoy our bacon. For breakfast or atop chicken for dinner! I did not find organic bacon at the commissary. I land up buying Farmland because I remembered seeing really poor videos of animal treatment, processing, & employee handling of Smithfield products. Now that I am home to research more, I find that Smithfield owns over 50 brands of pork products! And I found this company news to be pure BS: Murphy-Brown's Don Butler appointed to USDA's Ag. Technical Advisory Committee. The reason I call BS is because it is stated right there, Don is an employee of Smithfield's. Now he is also an adviser to the USDA. Here is another classic example of large corporations in bed with government regulators. Essentially- one of the largest hog producing companies is happy with one of their own being right next to those that are in office to protect the health of our nation, among other things. But is that what we the people want? Should we be happy that advising the USDA is an enormous pork-processing company? How will things like this effect small farms? Or those who believe in organic farming, not pumping, plumping, and dumping animals for meat?

My recommendations to watch

These are some excellent documentaries I have personally watched & want to share with you!

• Vanishing Bees
  
• Food Matters
• Food, Inc
• The Business of Being Born
  
• Pregnant in America
  
• The Future of Food thru Hulu
  
• My Potato Project; The Importance of Organic" youtube video- child's experiment turns into a lesson on the toxins in our food supply.
• The Disappearing Male -doc about mainly BPA's hormonal effect on males
• Plastic Ocean - "Just this one chemical used to make hard, clear plastic, BPA, is produced at over 7 billion pounds a year, and it's a non-recyclable plastic." It's thrown into the environment, many already know the dangers associated by this particular chemical. This video documents a apparent floating garbage island the size of Texas off the coasts of California & Japan. Entertaining, but educational- mainly just the beginning segment. It does reveal, however that there is not one "island" per-say of garbage- but rather pieces are scattered throughout, and the more broken down it becomes, the smaller & easier for small food-chain members to eat, fish, birds, ect. These plastics will only break down to a certain degree, not like natural things for sustaining life.
• Know Your Plastic Food Containers -very good video, sums up by avoiding codes 3, 6, & 7
• Food Beware: The French Organic Revolution (can be found on Netflix)- french documentary following a school in a town who's mayor decided their cafeteria would only serve organic food. They teach the children about foods, and they grow a garden & save seeds in the school yard. Talk with many farmers who use chemical pesticides and also about health issues and how these are related. Cancer is a big after-effect. It'd be nice to see the US try this.
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An introdution to why I started this blog

Our world is scary. Forget war, unemployment, the housing market bust. Let's talk about one of man's most simple requirements: food. Produce shopping is like a chemical battlefield- buyer beware! This also stems my desire to prepare for safe, natural pregnancy.

Evolution in many ways has benefit us, in other ways it has hurt us. If it wasn't for technology, I wouldn't know what I know today. It all started when I was curious about child-birth. I watched Pregnant In America thru Netflix. Netflix, being the wonderful tool it is, suggested numerous other documentary titles I might like to see. I did, and since then have taken to investigating how un-natural American's are today. Now I am gardening & reading labels not for the calories or serving sizes, but for the ingredients. I've also ventured into natural/organic beauty products.

Any, in general, I think folks thru FaceBook are tired of seeing my rants, so this is a different outlef. ^_^