I’m so tired of the guilt tripping and gaslighting in these food wars. It’s cultish, clique-like and restrictive of the delicious opportunity to tap into our inner wisdom’s call for substance, sustenance and sensory connection to the Divine through the ways in which we nourish our body, mind and soul.
And yes, I’ve looked at both sides, and no I’m not taking a side, except maybe a side of good vibes.
While the WEF prepares bugs for everyone, people want to argue about things irrelevant to the bigger issue at play that affects both perspectives.
I’m not really a foodie and to say that I’m not good in the kitchen is an understatement, but the digital food fights make everyone want to open up the Lesser Evil popcorn and pull a chair up to the table.
The same old left-right paradigm plays out in keto and kale debates everywhere, literally, everywhere. No one ever seems to zoom out to the larger picture.
People that finally began to see through the “two sides of the same coin” scenario now make snide comments to anyone who eats kale (if you’re carnivore) or (meat) if you’re vegan. You just transferred the one sided thinking to food, not remembering that what works for you might not work for EVERYONE, because we are all different. Yes, we may all be human, but no, we are not the same.
Not all vegans are in support of the poison fake meat, WEF agenda, so give them a break…they just want to eat a bean burger in peace (some are woke, though, discern the difference, watch out for Kale-brain)
Not all carnivores are cold-hearted meat-headed egotistical assholes either, they just want to eat a grass fed steak without the Peta police (some are a bit intense though, discern the difference, watch out for keto-ego)
Eat Keto.
No, Eat Kale.
No, Kale has oxalates and is very bad...but it literally grows out of the earth?
No, it’s bad, our ancestors didn’t eat that way, eat meat, our brain needs fat…ok, and?
I don’t like meat for EVERY meal.
Well then you will be sick with your oxalates, leptin, green things.
Will I, really?
I’m not buying it all. It’s pretty clear, whichever story is the most popular is the winner of the propaganda…until that changes…and it’s always changing. There is the propaganda pushing the system and then there is the alternate propaganda and then there is the truth.
Both sides support the natural cycle of life, if you know what I mean…. the good, the bad, the ugly, the hungry.
I don’t care what the fuck you eat and I really don’t think our ancestors would’ve been sitting around talking about it or would be guilt tripping each other on the internet because they were too damn busy living. You can find ancestral suggestions for eating to support whatever your “belief” is and whether it’s true or not is not for me to proclaim. Shouldn’t the argument be more about real food versus fake food…are bugs real food, wait, now things get confusing?
Health gurus that support either keto or kale, wiggle in spiritual language to make it sound like their ego isn’t inflated to a level so high they have lost all compassion and ability to see anything from a balanced perspective.
Just like the politics of left and right, spiritual versus religious, or whatever the two wings (pun intended) are this week, so, too is the food war.
How about start BASIC:
- Eat Real Food, whatever that is.
- Don’t support factory farming if you eat meat, choose if you can, grass-fed-finished, nose to tail, wild caught fish, the basics. Get some chickens.
- Don’t support Monsanto and all the poisons, grow a garden, forage, plant a tree, befriend a squirrel, basic shit, I mean compost. (ha ha)
- Do your best, meaning most people out there are stressed and struggling in these inflationary times, how about help each other out, improvements can go in either direction, both better than Doritos and Nachos.
- See that you both might agree on the harm of seed oils and crap like that, yay, high-five, you did it!
- Eat things that support life-force energy, you know what I’m talking about.
- Stop being so fucking rigid ……it is possible to BOTH enjoy life AND be healthy.
-If someone makes you something with love, are you centered enough in your mind to know the power you have to enjoy it without it negatively affecting you, understanding something made with positive intent and love is very different than something processed in the fast food line? AND you can also choose to say no in a loving gracious way if you absolutely don’t’ want to eat something. There are choices, neither require a lecture.
- Stop being a dick to people who eat different than you.
- Go to a farmer’s market and try to get back to the earth, support your local people.
_If you’re a mean ass mofo and you eat a steak, never giving thanks, it’s is probably going to reflect that bad energy back to you. If you’re of a loving heart and you eat something “unhealthy,” with gratitude, the food will reflect that too. Does that excuse or encourage bad choices, NO, but it is something to ponder. As a feng shui consultant, I’ve learned, the environment is EVERYTHING around us and all of it has something to say whether you’re aware of it or not.
There are people that are healthy on both sides.
There are people that are unhealthy on both sides.
There is more involved in the whole.
This could be analyzed until everyone is blue in the face, or red in the face, you pick. There is so much to take into account inside the human factor, from stress, the mindset, the energy exchange, the individual experiences, the joy of a meal, how close to the food chain, time in nature, the beauty of presentation, the simplicity of summer suppers, the hot tea (or coffee) while watching the sunrise ---- oh go ahead tell me how I shouldn’t have coffee or tea, there’s another one…..there’s a critic readily available on the internet.
Take your criticism elsewhere, my cup is filled with love and goodness. I’m savoring every drop.
We’re meant to flow with the seasons…the seasons of the year, of life, of the day, of the week and that means sometimes what we eat changes, what is available changes, what feels good to us changes, etcetera. If you build your whole life around a “LABEL” of what you eat, it’s going to be difficult to pull yourself out of it when something shifts and you decide to go in another direction, be it your diet, or anything.
From the fasting quandary to the sugar is good/sugar is bad debates, life is not so damn black and white…and that is GOOD!
We have a spectrum of tools, colors, frequencies, choices available to us and yet somehow everyone always seems to forget that and put everything back into there only being two choices.
Coke or Pepsi (what about Root beer?…or skip the sodas, eek)
Reverse Osmosis or Kangen Water (what about tap water, I’m kidding, not that one)
Republican or Democrat (what about American National?)
Carnivore or Vegan (what if you’re a fruitarian or a contrarian (ha ha)?)
Coffee or Tea (what if you like chaga?)
Black or White (stop leaving gray out of it, are you all racist against the color gray or what? It’s a joke, can anyone joke anymore?)
Yes or No (what if both are true or possible?)
I’m not a health “expert” and this article isn’t even about food. What’s really going on in this little rant is about mindset, communication and the power of choice beyond this-or-that. We’ve got to stop putting ourselves into a special box and pointing the finger at everyone else as bad…well sometimes that makes sense, but when it comes to freedom of individual choice we start walking on thin ice.
Just like the left-right division, where can your time be better spent than debates that don’t address the deeper issues….the root, not the symptoms.
Be an example, share your perspective, the way you choose to eat for you might be exactly what someone else needs to feel better, but if you’re doing it because you think you have all the answers and know the right way for everyone else to consume, then how are you any better than the tyrannical regime trying to tell everyone else what to do---- mask up, eat the bugs?
The bigger issue is, who is controlling the food supply? How can we work together in our communities? How can I make better choices to become healthier, for me? What can I do…where can I give my time-money-attention instead of these conglomerates who don’t care about either side, yet love to pit them against one another in the name of false morality and charity?
I personally don’t think fire was created to just burn things down and I like to eat both meat and veggies sometimes, things are ever changing. I’m learning and healing and have tried many variations…so don’t be tempted to attack me for being somewhere in the middle…. :) I planted a few fruit trees (won’t see fruit for a few years) and I have chickens for eggs, to which, caring for them makes me appreciate the gift of life. I know it’s hard to believe such wild “natural” ideas and there is likely an article or study somewhere to tell me why everything I eat is all wrong, but it is my way.
The propaganda about food extends far beyond the grubby-greedy-gnarly food-like industry that keeps people sick and heading over to their pharma buddies in a brutal cycle, but we aren’t going to escape that as a collective without recognizing both sides are trying to make their way, with good intentions, into a healthier life…one far better than what we’ve been sold and told…there is a common ground.
My grandmother lived to 100. She ate a lot of lard and also cooked from her garden that she enjoyed walking through and tending. I’m not saying do that, or anything, but she lived slow and simply. She was always outside and never ate “fast food.” The damn easy buttons and distractions of our modern day has taken us out of that deeper connection to nature and one another. Technology has not been good for the stomach, sanity, or spirit.
Maybe your way is better, maybe I’ll give it a go, maybe I’ll never know, maybe I’m just focused on rowing my own boat. It’s all a process and no matter what you’re choosing, it is sometimes difficult to find the quality desired, with all the toxic crap everywhere, so just do your best and try not to stress!
Remember, different geographic areas and/or cultures eat differently, so what one person might think is the be-all-end-all, might not be right for another…and they have good reasons too. So,go travel somewhere, enjoy strange food in a strange place, have a strange conversation…wonder what you ordered, explore, wonder if people in that strange land you’re in argue over the same strange things?
Enjoy your food, whatever food you choose! I know it’s an important topic for more reasons this short article can cover and it’s just not my plight. Both sides have moral implications and/or confirmation bias around what’s best ethically, for health, for the environment, etcetera.
How about listen to YOUR body because it’s amazing, is always communicating with you to help you…it knows what it needs. The more we connect with nature, the easier it is to sink our feet into a lost knowing. Often, it’s not about the food, but a longing for nourishment of a different kind, for food is more than what we eat, but what we read, listen to, consume, in all areas of life.
What is not being assimiliated in your life energetically, emotionally, intellectually? What information is difficult to digest?
What is being held onto instead of being released, detoxified, eliminated?
What emotions are you eating?
What food are you labeling as good or bad and why?
What label are you holding onto in order to feel safe, superior, in control?
How do your food choices subconsciously influence the variety, or lack thereof, in your life…where is the consistency or lack thereof, where is there richness, the lightness, the comfort, the nourishment, the letting go, the grabbing on to, the discipline, the spontaneity, the joy, the hate, the rushing, the slowing down?
I used to sit and snap beans with my other grandma on the porch, pick up pecans with my grandpa, go fishing with my dad and make cookies with my mom…today that would be seen as bad or taboo in one way or another, yet it was really meaningful and memorable. Living, loving and celebrating life gave me these positive experiences with food that I, personally, refuse to discount because of someone else’s beliefs.
BLESS your food because whatever you get to eat today, whatever you choose, it can benefit you or harm you, no matter the substance…your heart and mind influence it as it influences you.
Hug an opposite eater today, or don’t, it’s weird out there and I never want to write about this topic again.
Remember, We’re electromagnetic! We’re elemental! How you charge yourself up includes so much more than just food. How you get in the rhythm and flow includes so much more than what is consumed. How you express, cleanse and move is integral to the senses, to your mood, to the body’s routes and roots. We’re powered by light, water, air and earth…be mindful of how you quench your thirst! You do you, but know it all connects to make a whole…mind, body and soul! :)
Buy Me A mycotoxin free, Swiss water processed, buttery, magic filled sugar, rainbow dust infused Coffee!!! 😊
Don’t worry it’s coconut milk, or is it raw milk…maybe I like both. ;-)
With gratitude, love and joy…may you have the ability to nourish yourself in the most loving and meaningful way that makes you and yours happy and healthy, inside and out!
Angela
For kicks, here are some Bible passages about diet.
“So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God. Do not cause anyone to stumble.”
“Accept the one whose faith is weak, without quarreling over disputable matters. One person’s faith allows them to eat anything, but another, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables. The one who eats everything must not treat with contempt the one who does not, and the one who does not eat everything must not judge the one who does, for God has accepted them.”
You basically wrote a food sermon.
Seriously, nice piece though! I agree wholeheartedly. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
Haha! This makes me think of an episode of the cartoon show "Danny Phantom." I used to watch it with my kids. It's actually pretty funny.
Danny has two friends, Sam and Tucker, who are fighting over the school lunch menu, because Sam (Danny's female friend) convinced the school board to stop serving meat.
They each stage a protest over night, the dialog is hilarious!
***
Danny - You guys put together two protests in one night?
Tucker - Meat-eaters, [we're] Always ready to fight. And our high-protein diets give us the energy we need to do it quickly.
Sam - Ultra recyclo-vegetarians are always ready to protest. And because we don't have to waste time cooking our food, we can move even faster.
***
I love it! People are almost this bad too.
It's odd how people get into their camps, echo similar ideas, and consider everything else nonsense. I guess we all do that to some extent, but it's best to keep looking at everything. You'll never really know what's going on unless you can get that 30,000-foot view.
In our family we're eating a diet that supposed to help with inflammation with the assistance of a book, more of a guide. So, we eat meat and veggies. Most of the time we're trying to stay away from processed foods. We make nearly all of our own meals, it's pretty tough to find things sometimes. But we do have a Whole Foods close to us, so we can find a lot of things there when nobody else has it.
I figure we'll give it a try, because it can't hurt us to eat better food that's not full of strange things added during the manufacturing process.
I would say the best thing about Keto, vegetarians, or any of that, is that once people start looking at what's in foods, they start to wise up a little. They say, "Why do they even put this stuff in foods!? If it's bad for us in large quantities, how is eating it all the time in smaller quantities OK? And then, in the aggregate what's the effect? A little poison here and there -- in everything, is not good."
That's precisely why so many places are going back to natural foods.