"An effect of this contamination is that we are now one of the most polluted species on the face of this planet... Indeed, we are all so contaminated that if we were cannibals, our meat would be banned from human consumption" (Hundred Year Lie, 5).
This quotation really alarmed me. How is it that we have polluted ourselves? If we were cannibals, we couldn't even consume our own bodies. How can our bodies survive then if we are so badly contaminating? One thing is for sure: our bodies have survived this long, but they will not be able to sustain themselves much longer if we continue to pollute ourselves.
I feel very overwhelmed as I read this article. The first thing that comes to mind is my family: my mom and my brothers. How am I supposed to protect them from this? How can I relay the importance of this information to them? How will they afford the more nutritional food? And where can they even obtain nutritional, local food near where we live? My mother has seen her father and her mother die form cancer.. I do not want to see the same thing happen to her! But is it already too late? Have we gone so far that we can never recover our bodies from the detrimental damage we have already done to them?
It is scary to read that in the past 100 years, the cancer mortality rate has gone from three percent to twenty percent, and diabetes went from .1 percent to 20 percent. These numbers are horrific! How can the rates sky rocket so much in such a short amount of time? This is a tiny amount of time in the history of humans. We are ruining ourselves so quickly. If I really think about it, cancer is almost commonplace in our society today. When we hear that someone has been diagnosed with cancer, it is not entirely alarming because it happens all the time. One day, cancer could be the means of death for all of us. We will all slowly and sadly deteriorate because of our selfishness and ignorance. Furthermore, it is interesting to me that people always talk about "finding the cure to cancer" when we are the ones that practically created it. And we have the answer right in front of our faces! We can stop cancer! Stop spraying chemicals all over our food, stop genetically modifying our seeds, and let nature take its course!
Hi Lauren- yes, it is alarming and upsetting and I agree that we talk about finding a cure as if we didn't 'know ' the cause ...The good news is we can eat better food and yes, it cost more but it is worth it ...we pay now of later in medical bills and quality of life...I choose to pay now for better food ...So can you analyze more how this situation has come to be- who has created it and why and how is it that most of us are so ignorant? As for your family get them to go to the co-op with you and begin to educate them ...it is a slow process of un-learning and learning but one well worth it ..
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