One of my old classmates from way back in elementary school posted this recently on Facebook, and it shows seven common ingredients that you commonly find in food today that you should absolutely not put in your body.
I was impressed that he put it up on Facebook, but it was also a reminder that, however slowly, there is an awakening going on. People more often are questioning things that were rarely, if ever questioned before. The world is changing, and on many levels, many of these changes are for the better, if you know where to look. That's the good thing.
The bad thing is that it does take a very long time, even when the evidence for the change seems overwhelming, and all of the facts seem to favor making changes. Look at Global Warming, and how many regular people (I mean those who do not have direct vested economic interests involved) seem to blatantly ignore the facts, so that they can fall back on the same old, tired arguments as before, that environmentalists are "extreme", that measures protecting people, as well as the Earth itself, will stifle profits too much, which will hurt the economy.
Or, look at the fight with marijuana, something that is completely natural, yet outlawed throughout most of the world still. An overwhelming amount of evidence was suggesting now for decades that marijuana is not bad, that it in fact is a good thing. Good for the environment, and even good for cures. It gives people a high, or a buzz, yet it is not addicting, like other drugs (including alcohol and tobacco).
Yet, despite all of these, many people still have their reservations, falling back on the old arguments that there is something inherently evil to this completely natural plant. Bill O'Reilly just compared marijuana use literally to Russian Roulette. These attitudes were common for a long time, but are now beginning to change as facts continue to emerge to contest this limited and limiting line of thinking. But it just takes a long time. A very long time.
And now, with the food industry. For all his promises of "hope" and "change", Obama has seemed to many people a disappointment, precisely because he did not represent all of the things that people assumed he did. The most disappointing aspect of Obama is that is many ways, he is a continuation of what came before. To me, one of the most glaring examples of this was his quietly signing the Monsanto Protection Act into law. That was not a bill that made a ton of news, although it affects all Americans. There was no celebration afterward (except maybe by the food industry, and especially the chemical industry - particularly Monsanto itself).
If you do not know, the Monsanto Protection Act prevented better labeling of the foods Americans consume. Put another way, you do not have the right to know what you are eating. Oh, and chemical spraying of our foods (pesticides that we do not yet fully know the long term affects of) will continue unabated.
But even when a self-serving politician proves very disappointing, and even when the government seems to systematically side with big money, actively against the citizens it is supposed to, in theory, represent and protect, there is still something that we can do. We can remain active, and we can continue to fight. The most important aspect of this fight is to stay informed. This is especially true when it comes to things that you can control in your own life, such as food. It takes effort, it likely takes quite a bit more money, as well. But more than anything else, it takes keeping informed.
So, this seemed like a link that I should definitely share here, as well.
"7 Worst Ingredients in Food" By Dr. Mercola, December 30, 2013:
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/12/30/worst-food-ingredients.aspx
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