Do You Ever Watch TV? See All those Food Advertisements?
If you ever watch television, you might notice that there are many food ads running for restaurants, fast food chains, processed foods and more. It seems to me that this country has an eating disorder – we are food obsessed and we are not thinking about broccoli or apples. (They have a term for those obsessed with eating healthfully: it’s called orthorexia, as if it’s a disease to care about what you eat.)
We seem to want the next, big greatest thing to stimulate our taste buds. Well, perhaps the founders of Twitter are ready to put up or shut up by investing in a “vegan meat start up” (which strangely enough I first read as a vegan meetup).
See the Fast Company Article about Biz Stone and vegan meat to check out what they are doing.
What are your choices?
I encourage you to support the businesses that you really want to see thrive in the world. To me, that means my local farmers who work so hard, and companies such as Rancho Gordo, Purcell Mountain Farms and locally, Tierra Vegetables, who offer heirloom beans, Lotus Foods that imports amazing rice and Massa Organics that has incredible organic brown rice from California. I could go on but you likely know what I mean.
Let Your Money Support Your Beliefs
Putting your mouth where your money is, or your money where your mouth is, can have the biggest impact on your health, the health of the economy and the planet. We have to vote with our forks and knives or we will not be able to change the food supply.
Do you have any thoughts about this? Just curious…
Nonny Muss says
Hm, this reminds me of when I’ve heard people scoff about anorexia… “wish I had that problem” and so on. I’m glad for you that you don’t know about how painful and dangerous full-blown orthorexia can be, and I’m sorry to learn that this is not a blog that I should return to.
Jill, The Veggie Queen says
Roxanne,
Keep up the “diseased” way of eating. It will help keep you well and avoid all the chronic diseases that plague people here in the US and other industrialized countries.
It makes me crazy that choosing to eat healthful foods is “out of the norm”. What ?
Thanks for sharing.
Roxanne says
I am happy to know there’s a name to my “diseased” way of eating!