In Erica Strauss’s Zombies vs. The Joy of Canning, she writes about her love for growing and processing her own foods. If she looked at herself through the food mirror she would find an above average healthy adult. She grows her own food because “you have to love food enough to work for it. (Strauss, Zombies vs. The Joy of Canning)”.
By taking control of our food intake, we control our health. The appreciation of food has been diminished due to the commercialization of it. If consumers thought more about what they are eating, they would probably start growing their own produce. Strauss makes us question our shopping habits by asking if the preservatives, chemicals, and the process that the “healthy” foods in the stores have gone through to get to our tables …show more content…
Because the food is delicious. Because this kind of work makes me proud.”. If people ate foods that were grown naturally without any help with pesticides and synthetic materials, they would appreciate food more. If we, as a society started taking a closer look at the foods being put in our body, we would see less sickness, disease, and obesity that has been plaguing our nation since the creation of fast foods. If we started replacing the unnatural with the natural, we would see drastic changes in the health of our nation.
Masanobu Fukuoka in his essay Living by Bread Alone, writes about the importance of a natural diet. He stresses that lack of a natural diet causes sickness and a disconnect to our world. He writes, “Food is a gift from heaven. People do not create food from nature; heaven bestows them.” What Fukuoka is saying is that food comes from the earth, not from a factory; to reach optimum health we need to stop submitting ourselves to what the corporate companies are telling us we should eat, do some homework on proper nutrition, and buy the foods that we think we should eat based on that