Who Moved My Cheese?

In an attempt to get back on the blog-wagon (it is pretty pathetic how long it has been since I've updated...only got half way through the blog entries focused on my trip from CA ---> TN back in AUGUST) I started perusing my favorite food blogs once again. Something sparked in me literally hours ago and I understood now is the time to make a real commitment to this thing! My life is crazy busy with work and the realization of goals I have for my professional and personal lives, but writing has always been and will always be my creative outlet. Oh how I've missed voraciously typing away on my little keyboard!

I'm not totally ready to continue my story because honestly I need to organize my notes/thoughts about the rest of "the most excellent foodie adventure"...it was so long ago, BUT I did come across an interesting article about how once again the government is imposing on one of our most basic human rights, the right to choose what we nourish OUR bodies with. I felt the need to share :)

It is laughable and also completely appalling that the FDA pretends to be concerned with "food safety". Are they not the same government organization that guides the American population to consume food products that are made in factories from subsidized crops that are making us and the land we live on sick? Do they not regulate the feedlots where animals are fed foods that they are not by the laws of nature built to eat? Are they not the same organization that puts a band aid on a gushing wound by devising an antibiotic regiment for the animals so they can continue to feed them a crop that is purchased below the cost of production? Bigger cows, bigger breasted chickens (we NEED more McNuggets for the kiddos), shorter life spans, more money, a nation where kids are obese and diabetic by their twelfth birthday. Cows are not designed to eat corn. We are not designed to eat meat at every meal. They are big business. They are master manipulators. They do not have our backs....and now they want to take away our artisan cheese!! Bulls*it! Their reason: E. Coli. E. Coli is definitely a crazy icky insane super bug, BUT we are the ones supporting its growth and proliferation through our jacked up food system. Maybe if we didn't allow feedlots to exist, for miserable cows with major tummy aches to stand cheek to cheek knee high in there own feces their entire lives, we wouldn't have contamination of our water that is potentially used to spray fields of spinach, spinach of death. Wait, that's a whole 'nother post.....

That's my show and tell for now. Here's a link to the article that put a fire under my tooshie: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/05/business/05cheese.html?_r=1&hp

I'll also share one of my favorite quotes beautifully written by a man that has my utmost respect. Simple words to live by...

"If it came from a plant, eat it. If it was made in a plant, don't." -- Michael Pollan

Until next time, ya'll....