How could man know how to get to the moon and still not know what’s in the air that he breathes, the water that he drinks, or the food that he eats?
We’ve came along way from when grandpa drove a horse to town, to a man landing on the moon. There’s a lot that has happened that we have not been told about.
We have been wearing masks for two years and hated it every time we put them on. However have . . .
you noticed that there has not been as many colds or flus in the past few years? Apparently, there has been something in the air that we breath that wasn’t very clean. The masks that most of us wore were not the best we could buy, but we have been less active and did not mingle as much with people.
With the increased numbers of song birds, bees and insects we begin to realize that the smoke from cars and planes wasn’t too good for us either. Then, there’s the water. I was astounded last week when the USA announced that the average citizen consumes enough micro pieces of plastic each day in what we drink to make a credit card. Just think about everything that we drink that contains tap water, contains minute pieces of plastic that is invisible to the eye. That goes for tea, coffee, orange juice and everything that contains water. I just realized that our cows that drink water from a 500 foot deep drilled well drink cleaner water than 95 percent of the public.
Then there is the food that we eat. My granddaughter once told her mom not to buy any food with more than three ingredients. That would empty out most cupboards. Then I remembered how lucky many farmers are to drink water from a drilled well, drink milk that we know what’s not in it, eat meat from an animal that we know what the animal did or did not eat or get injected with, eat fresh veggies from gardens that we know what they were not sprayed or fertilized with.
I once met a restaurant owner shopping for food and we discussed what might be in the food we were buying. The restaurateur said that there are chemicals and additives in everything and just buy on price. I’m a bit like my granddaughter and I watch what not to buy. Whether it’s salt, sugar, rice, corn or a thousand other things I keep a mental list of what’s in it, where certain things are grown and how and what seed they use
Some food is safer from another country. Even beer, wine, and liquor, varies from place to place in how it’s made, with what, and without what additives. One of the most famous ryes in the USA had to stop being exported to the British Isles because the main ingredient was no longer available in the USA.
Some clothing made off-shore may be more environmentally friendly than others. I still prefer cotton jeans to nylon pants and they are held up with a real leather belt made by a local harness maker.
A new company that makes feminine hygiene products started up because no other company made products with zero chemical residue.
The worst part about the lack of regulations on labeling is that there is very little demand to list the total ingredients. Some of the large corporations have a larger lobbying budget than our total Canadian government’s budget. There could be complete lists of ingredients, except for very well worded patent rights and some very heavy lobbying. Some very dedicated researchers, professors, and scientists have lost their jobs trying to keep our food safe because it might infringe on the profits of a corporation who had lawyers that wrote their patents and they also employed some very effective lobbyists.
Changes in labeling must be demanded by consumers. Votes count.
