I watched Food, Inc and finally read the book and particularly enjoyed the chapter by Joel Salatin on Declaring Your Independence– “How can we help and what can we do to  impact the problem? ” 

As Michael Pollan so succinctly states in his chapter Why Bother? “We can …turn (our) lives upside down, start biking to work, plant a big garden, turn down the thermostat….forsake the clothes dryer… (get) a hybrid, get off beef, and go completely local……when (we) know fully well half way around the world there lives (our) same evil twin, (our) carbon foot doppelgänger in Shangai…who just bought (his/her) first car and eager to swallow every bit of meal (we) forswore….so why all the trouble?”. 

It is simple–better intelligence. There is a reason we need to opt out.  When you buy local or plant a garden, you gain a better understanding of food and the life cycle.  The USDA approved, industrial produced foodstuffs laced with preservatives, dyes and high fructose sugar syrup are problematic.

Buy organic, local or better yet plant a garden. 

It has been an eye-opening experience for me when I pick a strawberry in my backyard.  Although I have always been conscious about where I buy and what I eat, I have learned so much more about life this year from my garden. I eat what I grow.  You have never tasted a better green pepper!