Today Amber Fischer is our guest blogger. She was brave enough to have her food paradigm challenged. If you are interested in playing along on a future mission/adventure please email me at thetinytwig(at)gmail(dot)com!
In Amber's words…
I’m going to become a vegetarian. That was my first thought after watching Food, Inc. I was so disgusted. I kept seeing disturbing images from the movie replay in my mind, similar to when I was a child and saw PeeWee Herman’s Big Adventure (one doesn’t easily forget Large Marge).
However, within ten minutes after watching Food, Inc., I had talked myself down from the proverbial ledge and decided that maybe becoming a vegetarian was a bit extreme. (I love ribs. Like, really love them.) So my next thought was – ORGANIC! We’ll go ORGANIC! Yes! We’ll be an organic-only family, eating only organic food. I’ll find someone who can butcher a cow for us and we’ll eat… organic stuff. You know, like… hmm… fruits and vegetables… and… (what else can be organic??)… Peanut butter? Cheese? Okay, so going completely ORGANIC might still be a bit too extreme. (I mean, let’s face it… I would be doing well just to eat ANY fruits and vegetables, organic or not. Heck, when was the last time I had a piece of fruit? Does that apple empanada I had last night for dessert count?? Please say it does.) I have less-than-stellar eating habits. And by less-than-stellar I mean ABSOLUTELY TERIBBLE. I love McDonald’s French fries. I crave ice cream. I wish Coca-Cola came out my kitchen faucet. And don’t even get me started on Cool Ranch Doritos. I find myself eating starchy, High Fructose Corn Syrup-y foods ALL THE TIME. I am in the Fast Lane headed to Type II Diabetes unless something changes. Now. And that’s where I ended up. I’m probably a great big disappointment to the makers of Food, Inc. I’m not going to go lobby in DC about FDA regulations; I’m going to continue to eat mass-produced beef and chicken; I’m not going to grow my own self-sustaining farm so my family can live off the land. No, I’m just not there yet. But today I will choose to eat this…
…and that’s a step in the right direction.