The book in the photo is an eye-opener.
I don’t like the right-wing nationalist fervor that Mr. Toupee galvanized to win the election.
I knew he would become our president. No one believed me.
Yet the damage had already been done in the NAFTA agreement prior to Mr. Toupee’s reign.
In my life I stopped eating rice for dinner over 10 years ago. I haven’t bought bananas in years.
To read We Are All Fast Food Workers Now is to understand the threat to humanity posed by industrial agribusinesses.
The governments in other countries do the bidding of American transnational companies.
Indigenous people’s farmland is taken over by private companies to be used as sugar, rubber, and palm oil plantations.
That’s one good reason to stop or limit our sugar intake.
And I have long known of the ethical dilemma inherent in buying food products made with palm oil.
Just that word: food products should ring alarm bells in buyer’s ears.
If food doesn’t come from God’s Green Earth in a natural pesticide-free way, I say: limit your intake of that “food.”
I’m not perfect in my buying habits either.
Yet living in menopause I’ve started to examine my life and my choices.
Post-50 years old we are everyone faced with this caterpillar-to-butterfly slogan:
Change or Die.
The cost of Xenophobia in America is too high.
The cost to humanity of cheap food and other cheap products is high too.
Reading We Are All Fast Food Workers Now I understand that change might come slowly.
On the cusp of 55 I find myself at a fork in the road: which path do I want to take?
One person doing one thing at one time can change the dynamic like a butterfly flapping it’s wings.
Yet sometimes it’s not that easy.
You also have to be true to yourself and how your life is. To accept that you have limits. To do whatever you can whenever you can.
I’m learning that sometimes it’s not that easy to make a decision.
More in a coming blog entry about a remodeling project I’ve taken on in menopause.
It started with food and exercise. Are you a woman? Perhaps you can relate to the theme of food and exercise.
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