White Death

Published Friday, November 17, 2006 by Dan Gainsford | E-mail this post

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I've been learning a lot about food while here on the bison ranch.. and this is my second post on how we've traveled headlong into a progress trap when it comes to the food we eat. Around our food we've built an overly complex system that is highly dependent upon fossil fuels, fertilizers, and irrigation. This overly complex development has been great for the ever-expanding food processing industry, but not for overall human health. When I look out at the world, it seems economics has pushed nutrition aside. For us as consumers it has also become increasingly difficult to make good choices in what we eat, especially considering the overwhelming barrage of advertising and propaganda.

My feelings when it comes to food, is the same as my feelings regarding many of the things I've been exploring in these blogs. Aside from the truth of what's 'right' and 'wrong', we should get back to basics and return to more sustainable locally-based forms of agriculture. We should educate ourselves and reconsider our consumer choices, hopefully leaving false notions of progress behind.

In the end, I am unable to change how people eat, as it's a matter of individual choice, but I am able to post a little information and maybe affect those choices. Without education, we have no choices, and are simply left to follow mainstream trends. In educating ourselves, we may find the solutions that will eventually lead us to a healthy and sustainable world.

I've often heard refined sugar described as 'white death'... this has been echoed here at the ranch, here's some info I dug up to consider,

Article: http://www.cbc.ca/consumers/market/files/food/sugar/
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