There’s poison in our food. Yep, poison. Especially in the United States. Yep, the good ol’ U.S. It pisses me off, and I think it should piss you off, too. Why in the world are ingredients allowed in our food that other countries refuse to permit? If another country can get the same food item with fewer processed, dangerous ingredients, why can’t it be the same in the U.S.?

I’m assuming the answer is money. The way it’s made for the U.S. probably costs less. That will cost the people eating it more – when they get ill – but who cares about that? That just creates more profit for the health care industry.

Here’s how I vote for that: I vote no by not buying those items. If we in the U.S. would stop purchasing this crap, it wouldn’t be produced. Yes, the U.S. could enact laws banning these ingredients – just like other countries have – but how many years is that going to take? If it is even possible to get those passed. In the meantime, you get to vote with your purchasing power.

When you vote against allowing poison in our food, you save yourself and you save those you love. You save money and anguish when you don’t suffer through disease. You save worry and time lost on the medical merry-go-round. You save stress.

Say you can’t eat that way? That’s wrong; you can. Start making some different choices today, get used to them – bank account wise and tastebud wise – and continue down the path. It’s possible, and, if you want to stay well, it’s absolutely necessary.

For more on the difference in the ingredients in food in the U.S. vs. other countries, I’m sending you to an interesting/scary article posted on Lisa Leake’s site, a person who took her family – parents and two kids – on a 100-day challenge of no processed food. She has great information – how to do it, how to do it on a budget, how to please finicky kids (and/or husbands). She proves – and encourages – that it can be done. Not only will you have the satisfaction of knowing you’re saving the health of you and your loved ones, you’ll know you’re telling U.S. food manufacturers, in effect, “Hell, no, we won’t take it anymore.”

The eye-opening article on the differing ingredients, which is perhaps why Americans are sicker and dying younger than others in wealthy countries: How food companies exploit Americans with ingredients banned in other countries.