I LOVE food. I believe firmly that eating well is a huge contributor to living well. I believe that local, organic food is paramount to quality flavor and of course health. Since books like "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson first questioned mass farming techniques a debate emerged- to provide more food at questionable quality? or to provide less food at high quality? with the lines between blurry, farmers had to make decisions. Pesticides? Genetically modified seeds? Growth hormones? Cages? Free range? What were there moral guidelines? How educated were they about the choices that they were making? Did they even know that spraying crops might lead to poisoning our water supply causing a host of health problems? Do they now? Do we know what the long term effects are of eating foods that don't grow in nature...? WIth obesity rates in America at a high, and life expectancy dropping, can we stop these trends and their causes?
Despite the past, we are now living in an era with a huge variety of organic stores, stickers, various levels of quality that baffle even a food loving person like myself. So the journey begins, I am going to pave a path through the cacophony of labels and information. By reading, researching and interviewing, I am going to try to figure it out and share my findings, along with recipes here.
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