Food

Over the past couple of years, and doubly so the past few months, I have become more aware of the food offerings at the grocery store. Let me just say I am not very pleased with some of it, but outraged at most of it.

Because our daughter, Sophia, cannot have milk, we have to read the labels of everything we buy. Again, for clarification, it is not because she is lactose-intolerant, but rather she is “allergic” to the protein in milk called Casein.

There are many things that I don’t buy, even if I like them, because of their questionable content. Add to that list mystery meat…I only buy organic meat for reasons that are too numerous to divulge here. I was flipping through the documentaries on Netflix, and decided to watch “Food, Inc” last night. Most of the information was not new to me, but the stuff that was just reinforced what I already suspected or knew about food. Some of this information was unfair labor practices and unsanitary conditions which are far more compelling when you see it for real. The makers of the film also have a site out on tha’ interwebs. At that site, you can learn more about current affairs and help take action on forcing our government to do the right thing.