Call me old fashioned, but I just cant look at something and call it food if its grown in a laboratory from cells of an animal, costing nearly $300,000! Test tube burgers please, it just begs the question….. “what the …..?” You fill in the blank…
Has the world gone that mad, is our need for the taste of meat so great that we have to start artificially growing the stuff? What if we used those resources to educate people on the value of a plant based diet and just how environmentally friendly it is.
I have just read Healthy at 100. by John Robbins. If you haven’t read it yet…make sure you do, brilliant read! Some of the longest lived societies today know the importance of fresh grown and fresh harvested food. They understand the nutritional value of fermented foods and they are almost all vegetarian. With the smallest amount of animal products consumed, often fermented and very, very rarely meat. Their lives are productive, satisfying, they refuse to be rushed and they seem to be content. Equally importantly they are honoured as they age and respected for their wisdom.
How did we get so off track in our society? When did it become easier to find takeaway rubbish than an apple? Our stress levels have become so high, we are often using all of our vitamin C just to get through a day of stress, let alone for healing and maintenance of our bodies immunity. With the financial pressures in our lives we are caught in the loop of working to pay for the life we have no time to enjoy. No wonder we (well some of us) look older than our years, we cant expect to eat that much poor quality fuel, experience that much stress and feel and look amazing!
A dear friend of mine was lamenting how much she has started to age since her kids grew and she went back into the work force. With further discussions, she realised how much her stress levels have increased since she started a high powered job, with deadlines and other challenges. She smiled as she remembered stress free times spent watching the kids playing and sharing quiet moments with her family and friends. Geez is it any wonder her skin has aged, her hair is lifeless and her eyes have lost their sparkle. Her diet has taken a hit as she has become time poor and her rushed regime is putting exceptional pressure on the few nutrients finding their way into her system.
Maybe there’s more to be learned from the Vilcabamban’s in the Andes Mountains and not the test tube burger folk… Give me the peace of growing food, spending time with loved ones and reducing stress as a way of healing us and our planet any day!!