WHAT IS THAT???  Have you ever stopped and looked at your plate and wondered what is in it?  Have you ever stopped at the store and looked at the ingredients label?  Sure most of us have looked at the nutritional value label, but have you noticed all the artificial flavorings, let alone wonder why everything has corn syrup in it?  Is corn syrup some kind of magical glue that food can not possibly be made without?  I remember as a young child going to the garden to help, pulling up a carrot and eating it right there,  or beans, and don't get me started on blackberries!  We have over the last 100 years or so become so dependent on someone else to look out for our health and not taken it into our own hands.  We go to the doctor to get regular check ups so we can confront disease in its early stages but then we stop by some burger joint and eat something that who knows what it is anymore.  When I was a child my mother would take me to the doctor because I was sick.  He would prescribe Penicillin that was only enough for two days, and I was better.  Now after a week of Penicillin we're still sick!  Why because we have become so immune since we ingest all this stuff in our daily diet.  Anyone who has raised a baby calf from birth can tell you it is cheaper to buy milk replacer that is medicated than it is non medicated.  Now that makes sense, to pay more to leave something out.  Hamburger is blended back with fat for what reason I don't know.  70/30 hamburger is 70% beef 30 % fat, same with 80/20, while ground chuck which is supposed to be leaner is more expensive!  Now this really makes sense lets pay more for you not give me extra fat!  I'm still looking for the part of the chicken nuggets come from.

So what do we do?  First is start reading ingredients.  Start becoming aware of what you are eating, or like me go on an herbivore diet.  When was the last time you ate a peach, juice running down your chin or heard the snap of a carrot when you bit into it?  Now that is something worth savoring.

Through out this blog I will, and hopefully you will too, be posting our trials and triumphs in going organic, what it organic means and how to live healthier lives like our forefathers.