Month: January 2014

Shona replied – it should be “the problem is they are not selling food anymore, they are selling food like products” !!!
I responded – Shona, I’ve looked at this a bit. It’s a little like, “Which comes first, the chicken or the egg?”
Both sides CAN effect a change. The producers are merely driven by profit so they will do whatever they can legally (and sometimes illegally) do to generate a profit, no matter if it is moral or not.
Us consumers, however, are driven by other self-interests, maintaining our health and improving environmental sustainability.
Therefore until the consumers demand organic in greater numbers, the weight of the power lies with the producers of food-like material.
This is where it behoves us to get more people aware of the fact that ingesting food-like products is damaging to us, the environment and our future.

This is beautiful!
There is a tribe in Africa where the birth date of a child is counted not from when they were born, nor from when they are conceived but from the day that the child was a thought in its mother’s mind. And when a woman decides that she will have a child, she goes off and sits under a tree, by herself, and she listens until she can hear the song of the child that wants to come. And after she’s heard the song of this child, she comes back to the man who will be the child’s father, and teaches it to him. And then, when they make love to physically conceive the child, some of that time they sing the song of the child, as a way to invite it. And then, when the mother is pregnant, the mother teaches that child’s song to the midwives and the old women of the village, so that when the child is born, the old women and the people around her sing the child’s song to welcome it. And then, as the child grows up, the other villagers are taught the child’s song. If the child falls, or hurts its knee, someone picks it up and sings its song to it. Or perhaps the child does something wonderful, or goes through the rites of puberty, then as a way of honoring this person, the people of the village sing his or her song. In the African tribe there is one other occasion upon which the villagers sing to the child. If at any time during his or her life, the person commits a crime or aberrant social act, the individual is called to the center of the village and the people in the community form a circle around them. Then they sing their song to them. The tribe recognizes that the correction for antisocial behavior is not punishment; it is love and the remembrance of identity. When you recognize your own song, you have no desire or need to do anything that would hurt another. And it goes this way through their life. In marriage, the songs are sung, together. And finally, when this child is lying in bed, ready to die, all the villagers know his or her song, and they sing—for the last time—the song to that person. You may not have grown up in an African tribe that sings your song to you at crucial life transitions, but life is always reminding you when you are in tune with yourself and when you are not. When you feel good, what you are doing matches your song, and when you feel awful, it doesn’t. In the end, we shall all recognize our song and sing it well. You may feel a little warbly at the moment, but so have all the great singers. Just keep singing and you’ll find your way home. Author unknown

I think I made the right choice.
Have you?
Did a personal best last night – 840 dips and 840 push ups in an hour.
Amazing what you can push the body to do when it is properly fuelled.
Next stop – 1,000