For as long as I can remember, food was typically acquired from boxes and cans or drive-through windows.  Once in a while, there was a home-cooked meal.

Meals were somewhat spontaneous reactions to haphazard hunger, raiding the fridge or late night fast food.

Nutrition was something dieters thought about.

The environment was something hippies thought about.

Back then, I didn’t think about what was really in my food and obviously didn’t give a damn about where it came from.

This was the conditioning of a culture built on mindless consumption.  I was taught to think worrying about the health of myself or the planet was somehow “un-American” and abnormal.  Wholistic medicine and environmentalism was for people “going through a phase.”  This was the type of stuff you are supposed to quickly become disillusioned about and return to the mainstream culture.

I was led to believe I could ignore my own nutritional needs and modern medicine would always have a cure.  The doctor would sell me the quick fix for my symptoms, ignoring the years of nutritional and spiritual neglect that causes them.

Now I realize that the doctors are an extension of corporate culture.  I can finally see that doctors are used to manipulate and violate my trust for corporate profit and the re-concentration of wealth.

The doctors are trained to earn my trust while they sell me poison and ignore Wholistic nutritional science.  They told me I would stay healthy consuming mostly grains, meat and dairy: the chemical-fed and nutritionally-void foods that concentrate incredible amounts of toxins in the human population.  

The doctors push drugs for corporations.  They are not successful unless they are treating patients.  They are trained to earn your trust and sell you chemical cures.  They are trained to prove dangerous chemicals are actually safe.  Doctors spend nearly a decade learning about curing acute symptoms with drugs and surgery; they spend less than a week studying nutritional science.  They are not trained in the science of prevention because there is no profit there.  They are even trained not to really care about or become personally involved with their patients beyond simply earning an authoritative trust.  Hospitals and large medical practices are the "big-box stores" of medicine.

Wholesale healthcare is a soulless extension of the corporate consumption-driven culture.

Our culture depends on illness and ignorance and wastefulness.  These have been cultivated with cheap fossil fuels and an obsession with material wealth by decades of corporate culture. It is the same corporate culture that manipulates and exploits war and disaster victims.

All of these elements are contributing to the current food crisis that most Americans are seeing as only a small increase in the price of food from the global marketplace.  As natural disasters destroy this year's harvest, the world's food reserves are dwindling to historical lows.  Even the Red Cross is taking out loans to fund its rescue operations.

It is always incredible for me to see people that can afford to eat well buying cheap processed crap.  Food is completely taken for granted.  Americans can eat anything from anywhere at anytime.

Now, there may not be much choice once local, seasonal foods are gone this year.  Our food supply is shipped by boat from around the globe and trucked all over the country before we have to drive to the store or restaurant to buy it.  Fossil fuels are no longer cheap enough to sustain this insanity we affectionately call the global food system.

Have you started noticing the rising costs of processed foods?

Are you starting to realize the direct correlation between food prices and prices at the pump?

What are you going to do if the cost of living continues to rise?

Our culture has become completely dependent on soulless global corporate entities, and this dependency may be about to leave us all as helpless and vulnerable as the victims of the current flooding are now and the people of New Orleans were in 2005.