Navaho Gunleg

A few years ago, me and my girlfriend started to become more aware of what food we are eating; specifically noting the various additives the industry puts in them.

As you may have read before we now stay away from products that contain aspartame and have stopped using toothpaste that contains fluoride.

At that time I hadn’t yet mentioned monosodium glutamate (also called MSG and goes by the EU food additive code E621 but may be known by the exotic name ve-tsin). This is also a food-additive with possible allergic effects on some people. So we have also treated that as ’suspect’ for quite a while now.

It is commonly used in, sadly, of lot of products as a so-called “taste-enhancer”. Riiiight.

So we stopped buying certain tastes and brands of potato-chips and started to season and flavour our food ourselves. Now, I can imagine you to say we’re overly paranoid, but we see this as an experiment — just to see whether we’d notice and change, physically or mentally.

Funny thing is, a few weeks ago we went over to a friends place to eat dinner, not realising that it could be chunked full of MSG… and it was. But what is a polite civilised person such as I to do?

So we ate it, being hungry and all.

The next day though, I had a terrible head-ache and a general feeling of, well, just feeling “off”. Didn’t pay that any mind until my girlfriend came home later that day and told me that she had had a headache all day long and was feeling sick as well. Only then I realised that it could have been the MSG we ate the day before. That, or other stuff the industry puts in all those products that we don’t even know about. (With all those chemicals combined, who knows what effects this’ll have on various processes in your body. As you are merely the result of thousands of chemical processes, this could affect your whole being, your soul. It strikes me as sad when you realise that hundreds, if not thousands of families depend on this poisoning because the family-members work in that industry. But I, again, digress.)

Lately, my girlfriend is investigating what other stuff gets put into the food you buy in stores and, really, it’s not at all a pretty picture. It’s not only that the industry wants to put cheaper stuff into their products to substitute the original, no, in the future it’ll be as bad as the industry to start slanging unfertile seeds to the farmers — so they have to buy new seeds each and every year to be able to grow their crops — actually this is already happening. My girlfriend read me this romantic story how a farmer used to selectively pick the seeds of its best crops for the next year and how that is becoming more and more impossible.

It really is insane what we’re collectively doing to Mother Earth and ourselves eventually.

The number of un-suspected products is decreasing rapidly, as the demand for these products reduces in even a faster pace.

All this makes me wonder what is more important… be it those unjust visible violent wars for power and control, or these invisible wars for, well, also power and control. When it comes to life we’re getting screwed on all sides and while the people fight over what is more important, the silent invisible force of money will sadly prevail.

Everything will aggressively be replaced by a cheaper and unnatural “equivalent” and we allow it to exist by starting to use it because it’s a couple of cents cheaper — but only until the real thing is gone. Meanwhile we are naively kidding ourselves that all those “New and Improved Recipes” really are cooked-up solely to give us a more pleasurable experience.

Soylent green, anyone?