Reply #17: Its not even about medical care.. its about quality of life.... [View All]

How many have to choose between a box of kraft mac n' cheese and an oscar myer hot dog and perhaps a small container of applesauce (which is not even apple sauce, but reconstituted apples and high-fructose corn syrup) over free-range chicken, greens and homemade bread with a glass of organic milk. Its about quality of life. Its about having the right foods, exercise, and abiltiy to relax and enjoy family, friends and community. Its all tied together. GMO foods, crap from China, Walmart way of life...It leads to obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. These are some of the reasons. Then our medical care system is geared to thinking a disease is cured by a drug made at the pharmacy only... when half the problems could be cured with a nutritionally balance diet, exercise, laughter, and some good ole' sunshine on a delectable afternoon in the park.

There's a lot of talk about revolution... its scary to do when we have so much to loose as far as easy access to foods and water and infrastructure. And if you don't work, how do you pay for these things? Less people live on farms or even bother with their own garden. I think its that fear that keeps people tied to the computer and cell phones wishing for change, but afraid of the possibility of real starvation and lack of cleanliness and lack of family ties (now that everyone is so spread out). Its not like we are asking the farmers to drop their pitch forks and pick up a gun (and half of those guys are already in Iraq). We are asking city-dependent people to become independent all of a sudden.. and we know it doesn't work.. New Orleans couldn't do it without ifrastructure, how is every major city supposed to do it? All Bushie or any govt official would have to do is cut the power and stop mass transportation, and guess what... revolution is over. No one has figured out how to revolt in a society where so many are dependent on other people's for their existence.

When someone figures that out, then you will have everyone behind you. Until then, I'll be working my endless houred job and scrimping and saving so I can shop at my natural store and get a small house with a peice of land so I can start my own garden and herbs and stock up canning on the extra.... When I have it all in about a year or so, you all are welcome to stop by.. but it will take me that long just to grow the garden.