Ignorance is not a bliss!!!
Another food recall, this time for bagged lettuce. People keep telling you to eat more veggies because it’s less stressful on the planet and then you turn around and, low and behold, the food supply of veggies keeps getting contaminated. Why is that, you wonder?
Well, start with the fact that most people don’t know the difference between lettuce and spinach. The genius at CBS put a baby spinach picture in a story about romaine lettuce hearts!
People also don’t know how to prepare their food properly.
People want to eat everything raw–come on, seriously, raw broccoli tastes bad, that’s why you have to drown it in ranch to eat it.
We have been living in these super-clean bubbles and our bodies are not exposed to enough bacteria to build our immune system. Seriously, we’re too lazy to wash our hands so we carry disinfecting wipes and gels. Even when we do wash our hands or the dishes, we use antibacterial soap.
We’re too inconvenienced with getting colds and small infections, so we run to the doctor to get antibiotics.
Thus, by wiping out the weak bacteria, we are creating an environment of super-bacteria for which our current antibiotics are getting less and less powerful.
The solution to this mess is easy and yet difficult. Learn how to prepare your food and learn how to clean your food and your body without trying to zap 99.99% of the bacteria. Because those 99.99% of bacteria are the weak ones. You know the ones that while not being as dangerous to us, put a strain on the environment of the stronger bacteria.
An environment that is good for us is not a pristine environment, it’s an environment that is balanced and that our bodies have adjusted to through evolution. Because let’s face it: bacteria can evolve a lot faster than we can!
