Healthy eating used to be a lot easier. But now you have to check for chemicals, additives, and all sorts of other 'additions' that are put into food to preserve them and 'heighten' their taste.
Fruit and Farming
We believe that eating natural, organic food is one of the simplest ways to thank the earth. By eating food that hasn't grown in chemically enhanced soil shows that you are making a stand against pollution, and what we called 'world abuse'. There isn't any need for extra chemicals in our food. Plants have evolved with us, understanding what we need, and what we don't. If something isn't naturally there, then it doesn't need to be added in later by us.
I live in the country, so it is admittedly easier for me to get my hands on naturally grown fruit and veg, that i know hasn't been tampered with, its also reassuring to know that its fresh, And from somewhere local, unlike from a supermarket where the fruit may have been sprayed with chemicals to keep better during its 5 week shipping from another country.
Its really important to support british farming; its dying out! and this is because of the supermarkets being able to get cheaper produce from abroad. Another issue with importation is the Co2 emissions that are wasted just so we can have fruit all year round. Go look in you fridge and lay out the ingredients you would have in an everyday meal, and look at where it has come from then add up all the air miles it has taken to get to you. Its hard to say whether its amazing, fascinating, or just plain sickening.
Meat
Our bodies need meat, its simple. Eating meat doesn't mean you are cold and calculated and hate animals. Humans need meat to survive, so we eat it. Most Mammals need meat to survive, Lions eat deer, zebra etc... so do Tigers, most of the cat family, alligators and crocs, wolves,birds... you get the idea.
The only trouble we face now, are the sick people in the world who land jobs looking after the animals. In many meat farms, animals face severe abuse and beatings, and die in horrific ways you couldn't ever imagine. Animals that are still alive are left hanging upside down, bleeding and screaming in pain, and they are not cut down. We are told its the muscles spasming as they die. Its not. Even before animals reach the slaughter house they have been treated terribly, and the honest truth is there is hardly anything we can do to prevent it.
The best we can do is check where the meat has come from; and do our own research into their respectability.
Other food
Of course though, we would like to eat more than just fruit and veg, and most other foods do have ingredients that we can't avoid. Check around supermarkets for the natural sections for foods that have been made as organicly and naturally as possible, such as cereals, snacks, bread, ect. They usually offer a much better alternative to the usual supermarket options.
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