Food, Inc. what a tragedy

This week our whole class watched Food, Inc. on DVD and I must say I thoroughly enjoyed the video.  Wow! This documentary really opened my eyes to American culture of consumerism.  What I mean by consumerism is that we indulge in terrible lifestyle choices which will ultimately be our own ruin.  Now, I love America and Americans.  We are the greatest nation that ever existed.  We have so many riches and prosperity that we simply can not help but indulge in consumerism.  Everything around us has been ploy to our satisfactions.  And these things have played game with our thoughts, habits, and environment.

Now, where have we so strayed from American political doctrine that comes from:

The United States Declaration of Independence, which was primarily drafted by Thomas Jefferson, was adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776. The text of the second section of the Declaration of Independence reads,

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

Have these truths from Jefferson really caused our own downfall.  I emphatically believe these truths, but humbly admit I am my own worst enemy for falling prey to self indulgences of food.  I believe I am created by a creator (God) and He has put in me [everyone else] the most important aspect of survival and that is eating.  This is not an evolved form of nature that some how we want to eat and eat more and more and more.  But, I do submit that I have fallen victim to the American consumerism ideal in which we want sustenance and we want it fast and abundantly   That is where we have departed from the truth of life sustainability with eating.  May I predict that if we continue this culture that Food, Inc.is propagating, it might very well be our demise.  This video proclaims the 'poisoning' parts of our food and the path it takes from the beginning on the farm through processing and then at the grocery shelf, fast food counter, or restaurant kitchen.  Our food takes a path of 'torture' and we are victims of that 'poisoning' it accumulates along the way.

Isn't that awful, that we as Americans, have allowed our culture to give us the basic elements of survival but yet, we are being 'poisoned' with carcinogens and toxic elements from our very food we ingest.  This is terrible. We need to change first our own thinking and then our habits and then...  Well, you see the whole of the whole for all of us.  We are living all together on this planet and we need to utilize whatever we can to change our culture for the better.

I submit that I will do my part to eat better and also participate in spreading the word about our food.