Day 44 - Bread in Bed
Recently, I watched Food, Inc. It's a pretty amazing film that changed the way I view food, which is pretty amazing for me because I already eat almost totally vegetarian and enjoy a variety of raw and vegan foods. The thing about this film is that it's not all anti-meat. In fact, it's not anti-meat at all.
Mostly it's about how the farmers are trapped between a rock and a hard place: either they get government subsidization and work for the huge corporations who are in control and not doing things in the best interest of the people or they can try to work on their own and run into tremendous debt and law suits. The government just has their hands in our food and it needs to stop. I was actually so moved by this movie that I wrote a letter to President Obama that night. I'm not sure it'll make any impact but, if enough of us start speaking up, it will. One big thing is that we have to start buying local and organic as much as we can afford to. If we all were buying more organic the government would start to subsidize the little organic farmers and not the mega corporations.
Inspired, today I bought our seeds for our garden. Last year I didn't do one because there is no place for one where we live now. But the next house will have some sort of deck or driveway to but a container garden. I bought all organic and heirloom seeds and my hope is to save some of the seeds from the harvest and use them next year, and so on. The next house we are looking at is on the Island facing the West so that means lots of sun.
I view this food thing much the same as how I view global warming and all that. Sure, driving a hummer around won't effect us personally, but it will effect our grandchildren. Same with food. It might not be hurting us now (though I actually think it is) but imagine a world where organic doesn't exist because things are so cross contaminated. That could happen. Animal cruelty aside, something has to change.
I made a master bread dough that keeps in the fridge for 14 days. Every one or two days I can pull of a lump and make a small loaf of artisan bread. Ethan said it looked just like Panera bread when I pulled it out of the oven. Our oven sucks so it's not doing to greatest job cooking to loaves but they still taste and smell fantastic. Today the kids and I had fresh toast with raw honey on it for breakfast. So good. For lunch I made a tofu, roasted red pepper, lettuce (fresh from the indoor garden) and mozzarella cheese sandwich. Yum!
Mostly it's about how the farmers are trapped between a rock and a hard place: either they get government subsidization and work for the huge corporations who are in control and not doing things in the best interest of the people or they can try to work on their own and run into tremendous debt and law suits. The government just has their hands in our food and it needs to stop. I was actually so moved by this movie that I wrote a letter to President Obama that night. I'm not sure it'll make any impact but, if enough of us start speaking up, it will. One big thing is that we have to start buying local and organic as much as we can afford to. If we all were buying more organic the government would start to subsidize the little organic farmers and not the mega corporations.
Inspired, today I bought our seeds for our garden. Last year I didn't do one because there is no place for one where we live now. But the next house will have some sort of deck or driveway to but a container garden. I bought all organic and heirloom seeds and my hope is to save some of the seeds from the harvest and use them next year, and so on. The next house we are looking at is on the Island facing the West so that means lots of sun.
I view this food thing much the same as how I view global warming and all that. Sure, driving a hummer around won't effect us personally, but it will effect our grandchildren. Same with food. It might not be hurting us now (though I actually think it is) but imagine a world where organic doesn't exist because things are so cross contaminated. That could happen. Animal cruelty aside, something has to change.
I made a master bread dough that keeps in the fridge for 14 days. Every one or two days I can pull of a lump and make a small loaf of artisan bread. Ethan said it looked just like Panera bread when I pulled it out of the oven. Our oven sucks so it's not doing to greatest job cooking to loaves but they still taste and smell fantastic. Today the kids and I had fresh toast with raw honey on it for breakfast. So good. For lunch I made a tofu, roasted red pepper, lettuce (fresh from the indoor garden) and mozzarella cheese sandwich. Yum!