There are many things inspiring me in my life right now; besides getting Big Mouth Foods off the ground and moving forward professionally; I've been growing a lot spiritually, and feel so blessed and grateful for those who are walking this journey with me. I feel like there are so many things going on right now in the world (not that I'm aware of the majority of them) there is no way you can not get fired up or be in some way passionate about one area or another. Here are some of the things rocking my world lately that I'm loving/passionately upset about.
- With Earth Day tomorrow and "green" living being such a hot topic lately I'm sure I am just one of the masses being bombarded with articles and advertisements about stuff that is somehow related (or sometimes not) to the environment. I feel like we're somehow ahead of the game or something since everything these articles keep saying that you should do are things we already do, but that's beside the point. I think because J works in the renewable energy industry people are always asking us about different energy sources and what we think of them etc. I find some of the things amusing that people think are "green" or helpful to the earth when in fact they don't make the slightest difference. I also find the discrepancy of people's behavior more than amusing. How in one area of their life they do something they see as good (using a cloth grocery bag) while in many others they don't even think about the damage they are doing to themselves or the planet (using paper cups for endless cups of coffee at Starbucks; pumping themselves full of drugs that will soon turn up in our water supply; or using chemical filled soap and cleaners to 'clean' themselves and their houses only further polluting our water.) Okay off the eco soap box.
- A movie I haven't even seen yet (but hope to as soon as I can find someone to watch the baby for a few hours) I believe is long overdue in coming out and am excited as anything to see: Expelled I'm not sure how people who are passionate about their beliefs, whatever they may be, wouldn't be outraged about such censorship of knowledge.
- King Corn - I also have not seen this yet, but am very excited to. Even though we've been avoiding corn for close to a year now the essence of this film still hits home very strongly for me. Along the same lines as The Future of Food and Supersize Me (both of which I strongly recommend seeing if you have not already), I think this will continue to open people's eyes to the greed and gluttony in this country and what we have done to a once reasonably healthy grain. Corn produced in Mexico can have as much as 13% fiber and so many more slow carbs than the yellow corn (dent) that is grown here to be processed into corn syrup etc. It's sad how we've (collective) modified and 'engineered' what was a beautiful healthy food into something that may serve the 'needs' of the populous but at the same time is killing us with every ounce of consumption. It's true too how extremely difficult it is to avoid corn as it's processed and added to nearly everything imaginable. I hope that people actually see this film and from it see that they, the consumer, need to choose wisely between whole grain products and overly processed or treated foods. If more people would choose the whole corn products, grass fed animals, and slower carb products that are made by more natural processes the rate of disease in this country would fall. This would give them so much less to complain about which leads me to my next point...
- A Complaint Free World - I'm almost done with the book but still find myself restarting the challenge every day. I was at a friend's house when her room mate came home and declared that she was on day five, and showed me her bracelet. I inquired about what she was doing and found myself leaving their house that night with a bracelet, book, and a mission to change my world. I'm very excited about the potential that this challenge holds and the amazing transformation that can come from it. It can impact every area of life and leave you seeing the world in a totally different light.
- This is pretty unrelated, but it's something that I am highly amused by. Individuals who become vegetarians because of the unethical treatment of animals yet continue to eat commercially produced eggs, and dairy products with out a second thought. Often they don't even buy the 'cage free' or organic varieties. This is something I really don't understand. Just one of those hmm things... I guess I have a lot of those though. I also find their argument about the environmental impact of the animals interesting while they turn to soy as their protein alternative which in itself brings on massive environmental destruction itself through rain forest clear cutting, pesticide usage, oil transport of the soy. Along with the fact that most soybeans are GMO at this point makes soy a difficult alternative to justify. (Side note, I support and agree with what they're doing by not eating beef/chicken/fish whatever in many aspects, the environmental and animal cruelty arguments are definitely well founded, but I wont be going veggie anytime soon. We buy only local free range grass fed animals and their products, so I feel justified in eating them and supporting local farmers. Essentially we're doing the 100 mile diet minus a few things that I deem essentials - rice, mangoes, coconut, wild caught salmon, etc.)
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