posted 1 year ago
I started buying organics 8 years ago because I hate toxic gick, and the destruction of healthy soil. (What an incredible GIFT soil is, I have learned in my Permie years!) But as I continued to purchase organic products, it was also because I wanted to do it to shift my dollars away from monolithic food corporations.
But these corporations really want control over me and my dollars, so they are buying the organic businesses (like Annie's and Cascadian Farms, for example). I still don't want to support them, even by buying their organic line. Why? Because I am pretty sure they are getting the USG to change the definition of and requirements for organics, bringing it ever backwards to the artificial and toxic ways I was fleeing in the first place.
So local Permaculture is, as always, one of the best ways to give us other options of healthy food. I am getting more committed to spreading the word and encouraging growers in my town. Don't know how yet, but I feel it is imperative for the sake of humanity to understand food rightly, and I want to help people!
“If we are honest, we can still love what we are, we can find all the good there is to find, and we may find ways to enhance that good, and to find a new kind of living world which is appropriate for our time.” ― Christopher Alexander
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