Waking Up

Someone had hijacked my grocery cart and I wanted it back. I woke up one day and realized the food I had been buying was replaced with life like replicas. What I had been eating was no better than the standard American fast food diet, but it was mostly fresh, minimally processed and from SUPPOSED reliable sources, but my food wasn’t real.

Because companies were masking the food origins, these same companies who had built their reputations on offering so called healthy options, were using pretty packaging and selling them in designer grocery stores. I used to be a whole foods shopper, I admit, it’s hard to say, but it’s true. I bought into the idea that their foods were cleaner and boy was I was wrong. I overpaid dearly for this mistake. I could have just bought my groceries from anyone, for a lot less.

Just because it looks pretty or has been packaged to attract the eye doesn’t mean its better grown. It doesn’t mean the animals were fed an ideal food for their species. I didn’t realize farmers and indigenous people lost their land and lives for it to be on my and your tables. I bought into the idea this food is fresh, less processed and unaltered, but this was just a front. I did not take into account these seeds were created in a lab and not nature grown!!!

In food production, genetically restructured genes are made to make the plants hardier, and to even create its own pesticides or to resist them. I started to realize what I had been doing was further poisoning myself and my family with my good intentions. I woke up! I changed my patterns by finding local farmers growing food from reliable truly organic heirloom seeds. No chemicals or synthetic fertilizers and without genetic manipulation of the seed. I sought out meat where the animals were raised in a natural environment, eating grass and bugs and seeds instead of piles of grain, and I got to know my farmer. I stopped eating at restaurants, ordering out and expecting food to be fast. I took pride in my cooking and began to see just how much I could do for myself and it started to be fun!

The kind of change I did isn’t always easy, and I think people need a resource to develop an understanding of how food affects us, what has gone into processing, creating and growing food and why the food supply as we know it has become so contaminated, we may never be able to reverse or overcome the damages, the damages we so freely buy into.

But it is my position that we have to try, not just because our health depends on it, but because the vast implications of food growing and production affect every living being on this planet. It is our humanitarian duty to care, and to change and make it possible to no longer produce suffering and devastation. I know I cannot live with the possibility someone else will have to suffer for my comfort and ease. In a literal sense, we are at the point where many of the ingredients commonly used in packaged food production in the US alone have resulted in the destruction of a human life somewhere on the planet.

That all being said, good clean food should be comfort and joy; it should evoke connection and celebration, strong emotions and be a part of family. We can do this and support life and prosperity, we can eat well and let others do the same, it is possible in every region of the world without fancy stores and pretty packages. It costs less, it preserves land and life and it makes our health better in the process.

As a doctor, I have an obligation to make it possible for others to do the same as my family does. This will be a place where information will be at your disposal, you can learn and try new things and get comfortable with real food.

At the Comfort Food Militia you will find:
• Resources for growing, sourcing and cooking food
• Intelligent discourse about how to make the transition from commodity based foods to clean foods
• Recipes for true “Health Food”
• Links to scientific studies and literature about food, food politics and health
• Commentary on the most prevalent dietary “wisdom” being propagated today
• Amazing ways to reinvent your daily menu with desserts, decadent breakfasts, lunches and dinners without breaking the bank
• How to take part in your local food community
• Sources for milk, meat, education and all things food
• Resources to understand how food production affects humans through land destruction, forcible relocation and even death and how to avoid taking part through purchasing power.



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