Food is always on of my main New Year resolutions. It is kind of a big deal.
More people, if not most people these days realize that there is at least something to think about or consider when it comes to what we put in our bodies. There are a lot of reasons that it is so easy and cheap to buy processed factory farmed food, but I think the extra work or expense of buying good clean whole food is extremely valuable to society as a whole.
The health of our body and environment is probably the most obvious reason that comes to mind, but there are many other more difficult to discern reasons too.
Breaking the legal and financial strangle hold that factory farms enjoy will never be accomplished by begging the people they own to work against them and in our favor. The answer is in not giving them our money or support. Why not support your local farmer and co-op?
Lets think about $5 per dozen eggs.
At first glance, that does sound expensive. It only sounds expensive because it is relative to standard factory farm produced eggs. Lets look beyond the myriad of unseen expenses of putting food that was produced in such dubious conditions in our bodies and look at the actual burden of the "expensive" farm fresh eggs.
If we eat two eggs with something else for breakfast that only $0.50 per egg for a total of $1
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