There is never enough of what does not satisfy

Friends.... this link was posted on Facebook... click

This was my response...

Thanks for the information...

I ask all those who are in the health community to continue to keep a clear mind, watch your motives and to not get too caught up or attached to any financial rewards you may find or have found from your ventures.

It was not so long ago that this "business" was just a few hippies like myself in food coops around the country trying our best to get real food for ourselves and our family. Look what has happened already.

I would also ask all those who purchase such to diversify those purchases so as to not offer too much power to any one seller; this would be good for all concerned...

Be wise people.. we are dealing with lusty human beings who want want want and are rarely satisfied, the more they get the more they need, they become insatiable...

Who knows, perhaps this young man started this biz with good intentions as a way to rebel against his family's corporate food biz. I don't know... the bottom line he has gone off track to say the least...

I'll send this to Whole Foods home office. smiles...

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It's capped, now what?

They only sell, we buy.......

Today I announced to my FB friends that the gulf well had been capped (for now)... This began a conversation; I said all this will not change anything until “we” do something, until we are willing to change our lives, perhaps “god forbid” even sacrifice...

One fine lady wrote this, you’ll find my response following her comment... Let me also say she is complaining that she lives on a mountain (her choice to save herself and family from the world) and therefore cannot live without a car. I see a bit of selfish hypocrisy here...

The dear one says........ "I beg to differ.... The clean technology is being withheld...as a result of greed...there are so many solutions to our oil addiction...it's just that the oil companies and gov'ts benefiting from the oil profits are withholding the info, there is a huge green energy cover up."

My reply.. dear one, I agree with u, but differ too...

if it is greed, and I agree it is, then if we stop using it they will begin selling something we will buy; there is no profit in product that doesn't sell, so the problem continues to return to us...

We want someone else to do it for us, we complain "they" should offer us something else so we don't have to ride bicycles and take mass transit, walk even, so we shift the blame and continue stasis quo...

My car has gone 3 miles since last friday and I own two... My friends see me in the streets and ask "do you bike everywhere?" My answer is "if I can"

When our cities look like this (click) we'll be on our way... and our fat American asses will shrink too...

Gourmet Raw Food... Sustainable?

The comments here were meant for my Facebook friends, but it is a bit long so I’ll place it here for all of you to enjoy and place the link on FB.

Here we go....

I sit here reading what everyone’s (by everyone I mean the raw fooder's) is eating this morning and ask why?

When I began my journey many many years ago (OK 1967 smiles) the point was to eat simply, to return to nature, to eat real "food" as it is... Today I see things like banana cream this, and taco that, and raw pizza, mock cheese cake, etc...

As for me I would prefer just having a banana, some nuts, juicing some veggies, eating some sprouts, chewing on some wheat grass, and if I want cheese cake, once a month go to a good restaurant and have a slice of the real thing, it won’t kill me and it tastes soo much better...

I can see the substitution deal as a transition diet for those with little will power to cross over, or for a fun treat, diner party, etc. but to have to make every good thing mock the crap we used to eat, the SAD mode, is foolishness and keeps the mind locked into a pattern that makes it easy to return to eating poorly again..... for many will say, "I don't like this mock stuff, i want the real thing."

I believe something goes on in the mind when we eat things that look like food, that there is a primal message offered when we see a living thing, kill it (yes vegan do kill) and eat it... and the message the mind offers the body is “here come X, do this to use it”... If you reject that, then let me ask, has your mouth ever watered when you've looked at or even thought about something you love to eat? This is your mind preparing your body to digest...

I know many of my sweet friends are vested in this gourmet raw food thing, some because they like it, some because they are making a business out of it, but please, let’s not think this is a way to live, and let's not make others believe this is how it “must” be to be raw, vegan, healthy.. It’s not...

Believe me, this is discouraging for the majority of the population, for most people just do have the willingness, time, or ability to live this way; for it is very time consuming; as anyone who lives the life can tell u.

If we are trying to be helpful, live and eat well, we must get real... this is not a sustainable lifestyle for the “average” person.

Smiles....