Breaking it Up

Shortly after my last post, I wrapped up "What to Eat". I am so glad I worked through it. It will be a handy reference book to have on the shelf, and has reinforced my already fairly healthy eating strategy. Although I enjoyed it all, the last page and a half included a powerful summation of WHY to make good food choices:

"You cast your vote for your choice of food environment every time you put something in your shopping cart or order off a menu. If enough people vote with you, changes will happen.

If, for example, the Organic Standards will continue to mean something in the United States (and I am convinced that they must), it will be because hundreds of thousands of people will demand that nothing be done to weaken them. That is how personal responsibility really works. If you think you as an individual cannot do enough to make a difference, join with others who believe as you do. Plenty of organizations are devoted to making food healthier and more friendly to the environment, and to making such food more widely available. They will welcome your membership and support.

You eat. Willingly or not, you participate in the environment of food choice. The choices you make about food are as much about the kind of world you want to live in as they are about what to have for dinner. Food choices are about your future and that of your children. They are about nothing less than democracy in action.

I truly believe that one person can make a difference and that food is a great place to begin to make that difference. Yes, you should use personal responsibility -- informed personal responsibility-- to make food choices you believe in. Exercise your First Amendment rights and speak out. And enjoy your dinner."

PS- if you feel like you are having deja vu, I extracted this from the long and rambling email from a couple of days ago. It was just too damn long.