tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3601095116946443593.post2401519191991050223..comments2010-12-20T23:21:29.298-08:00Comments on Gone Rawkin: For What This is Worthbethsbridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03903786323785210163noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3601095116946443593.post-35184365377151624412010-02-04T22:39:44.494-08:002010-02-04T22:39:44.494-08:00You know, I get a lot of "I don't care&qu...You know, I get a lot of "I don't care" too or people trying to convince me that it really isn't that bad, etc and I think it is more honest tosay that people really just feel powerless and apathy is a coping mechanism. It's almost a victim mentality. How can they justify the ills of their life and the spiral they have embarked on if they can't play vicitm. It's so sad to me. I see it in my clients sometimes too with physical ailments as tehy say, "What can I do, it hurts to much to do anything" yet they know if they don't move past the pain and exercise and stretch then it will only hurt more causing more medical bills and need for medications. I'm not saying that sometimes that intervention isn't necessary but it can certainly spiral. Then they become victims to it and to medications and the health care issues and costs. It takes so much to rise out of that mentality and I think it is the same with something as BIG as the food industry. I like what they say at the end of the movie, we have the power. We vote every time we eat. Eating consciously will eventually change the system. We just have to be the example for those who are willing to wake up. Maybe it is really just as easy or as difficult as picking a meal that is conscious. Maybe it isn't scarey. Maybe we really CAN do something about it.bethsbridgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03903786323785210163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3601095116946443593.post-6433403739561754102010-02-04T18:40:28.996-08:002010-02-04T18:40:28.996-08:00I agree wholeheartedly. I've been into environ...I agree wholeheartedly. I've been into environmentalism since I was a kid, but around 16 years ago, when I lived in Raleigh, I discovered Whole Foods. I couldn't afford to eat too organically in those days, but I sure try to do as much as possible now. I've been blogging about it (both on LJ and Blogger) for 2-3 years, I talk to friends and family about it... and watch their eyes glaze over and I get told, "I don't care." <br /><br />That's the sad thing. Most people don't care, or can't make the effort. Or don't want to pay extra for the healthier food. And then they complain about their health care costs and their expanding waistlines.<br /><br />And like you said - and I've had the thought too - that all these "trace" levels of this that and the other thing add up across the board to these soaring rates of health and mental issues. None of this stuff gets tested past perhaps a few months, a year, maybe two. We have no idea of the long-term damage any of these things do to us or the environment. <br /><br />Just by changing to healthy/mainly organic, and getting the junk out of my diet and getting rid of the sugar/junk cravings, I have lost and permanently kept off 70 lbs. for a couple years now. The next 20 after that I keep bouncing up and down, but the healthier I eat (both more organic and also more vegetarian), I just watch the pounds fall off, even without adding much exercise. I still have LOTS to go, but keeping motivated this year is a BIG goal.<br /><br />Books I would recommend to you (or your readers) if you haven't read them yet:<br />- the 2 from Michael Pollan I mentioned yesterday<br />- "Hit by a Farm: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Barn" but even more so the follow up to that, "The Compassionate Carnivore" by Catherine Friend (catherinefriend.com and on Blogger as theinkslingerwrites)<br />- "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life" by Barbara Kingsolver<br /><br />I'm struggling to be full vegetarian, but at least I do my very best to make my meat-eating habits as compassionate as I can by supporting the small farmers who treat their animals humanely.Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03679950439353829097noreply@blogger.com