“The
supermarket aisle has become a confusing place. It used to be full of
recognizable items like cheese and butter; now you find yourself
bamboozled by all manner of odd alternatives such as 'raw' hummus,
wheat-free bread and murky juices”.
Have
you noticed the attributes the author uses, like “odd alternatives”
or “murky juices”? What does it tell you? Are we no longer open
to differences and varieties? Do we need to have one thing, because
our world is ruled by monopoly? Personally I find it strange. Isn't
it a good thing. that now we can try almost anything? That we can
cater to variety of people, because our abilities and imagination
allow us to do so? Why clip the wings?
Advocates
of healthy eating are portrayed in this article as religious
disciples - they are the food bloggers. They are inflexible and they
command the wellness and nutrition trends:
“The
high priestesses of this new religion are a group of young,
attractive women who amass hundreds of thousands of followers online
as more and more people turn to them for guidance”.
See
what I mean? They call them high priestesses of new religion.
Derogatory comments are like ammunition, which are to be used in a
battle. Who are they fighting? Are they simply worried about the
many followers or maybe because they are afraid, that their world will
collapse? But why would it? There are so many followers of
traditional diet and in addition there are practices which ensure
that we will not move away from it. So they should be safe.
Just
recently we have seen a documentary called “Cowspiracy”. It is a
mind-blowing experience. Not only they confirm, what I have already
written about about unsustainability of meat consumption, but also
they show, that the main culprits of this conspiracy are organizations,
which should fight preserving our environment in the first place,
such as Green Peace and others. As a result the world went silent
about environmental destruction of our planet and we pretend that all
is OK. How strange. Actually both me and my husband, we were so
shocked and our hearts were pounding so hard, that we could not finish
watching the movie in one run and we had to take a break. It is
horrifying to know, that we prefer to live in an illusion than to face
the truth and actually do something about it. It is no longer living
off the interest, we are digging into reserves and soon we will hit
the bottom.
The
problem is that we all over-consume meat. Even if we prefer meat over
vegetarian diet we still do not need to eat it that much. According
to my calculations, we can easily reduce consumption of meat by half
and become healthier by sticking to a well-balanced diet. By being
healthier we can also take care of the environment and everyone who
lives in it. In addition, once we acknowledge what actually goes on
around us we will be able to see, that this madness in the world of
illusion is leading us to catastrophic results. We literally become
sick and unhealthy from ignoring the symptoms of imbalance and the
health of our planet is just yet another manifestation of what we do
to ourselves. We live in the information age so we should take
advantage of that. The information is out there, no one can hide it
although by not speaking about it we make it disappear from our
consciousness. If we woke up for at least few minutes we would
embrace the unique, diverse, and even peculiar and discard uniform,
homogeneous, rigid, conventional and monolithic.
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