Fixing an Epidemic
May 9th 2011 09:38
Over the course of human history there have been many epidemics met with bold and innovative solutions.
Solutions that forced societies to think outside of the box to prevent a sickness effecting hundreds of people in a localized community from becoming a pandemic effecting millions across the globe.
From the great plague to typhus to small pox and diseases that science has yet to find a cure for; the human race has always found a way to do better than what they were doing before a sickness gripped the hearts and minds of a population.
In the industrialized world, science has found a way for communities across the globe to thrive without the threat of illness affecting our daily lives.
With this feeling of comfort, societies have become complacent with a mind set of invincibility to the concern of living against the laws of nature.
Laws of nature that prevented the plague of illnesses that have become the headline story of the 21st century…
Illness that can’t be wiped out with a shot or the creation of a new standard of public cleanliness but must be combated in the minds of each and every human being on the planet…
Minds that are barraged with daily attacks from commercial advertisements, social folklore and a public disservice from a media driven by the same engines that allowed things to spin out of control.
For all the jibber jabber and double speak about fighting obesity across the globe the world public is still lacking a clear voice to address all the reasons why this is a war we’re never going to win.
A war that will require the dissemination of information that many people in the general public are not willing to listen to and the unraveling of a complicated puzzle that will open the door to a network of cozy relationships between government officials of industrialized nations and a food industry driven by corporate bottom lines more than a duty to consider the health and safety of their consumers.
Before Billion Dollar Corporation’s boar the majority of responsibility for feeding the world the public relied on the local farmers.
Local farmers that had a name and face when a family purchased products from local markets and felt a sense of responsibility when his consumers health was affected because of his work.
The reason for this concern was not from a sense of fear that revenue would not be coming in from word getting out about his products but was out of a sense of honor and the strive for a job being done right.
In today’s market place the idea of living natural has been replaced with a movement to make products more abundant for the purpose of affordability, chemical additions to extend product shelf life, increase of expediency and transformations to make food look more colorful and spike taste buds.
For these experiments with nature the human population has been stricken with the crisis of Obesity and other Health Concerns.
Health concerns that have come from our cost of living…
In what some would call an unfair trade food is now cheap and accessible but also comes with a heavy price in the deterioration of the overall health of the world population.
A deterioration that can be witnessed in hospitals across the globe with a growing cancer rate, more and more people being diagnosed with diabetes, an obesity pandemic, spikes in blood pressure and a lack of answers as to why all of this is happening to modern generations but was not a concern decades ago.
Over the course of time, the human race has come to understand the dangers of things that were once considered to be acceptable.
Expectant mothers were once told that it was fine to smoke and drink while pregnant until doctors and scientists made the hard decision to fight against the status quo to protect future generations much like the battles that occurred in the 1980’s to get information to the public about an AIDs epidemic that was once considered to be only a gay and bi-sexual disease.
While the optimistic side of my beliefs wants to fall back on the wisdom of humanity to somehow wake up as a race of people to the backwards logic in modern conversation the other side of my beliefs buried with the logic in front of our faces is telling me another story.
A story about how it is up to each and every one of us as individuals to find a way to protect ourselves from the damage that is being done to our bodies on a daily basis.
Damage that is coming in the form of ingredients listed on the side of cans, packaging, bottles and plastic containers that are going un-noticed until the time comes for a doctor to tell us the reasons why our health is being compromised.
In a fast paced world where agencies built to protect the health and general welfare of the public and media outlets built to serve as watchdogs for the public are doing a disservice to the communities they are supposed to be working for we have no choice but to find alternatives for ourselves.
Alternatives to the way we are told we are supposed to live and the kind of lives we set up for the next generation.
By gaining and passing on the knowledge needed to survive in a world unwilling to give open and transparent answers each and every one of us are doing our individual part to fix an epidemic.
Solutions that forced societies to think outside of the box to prevent a sickness effecting hundreds of people in a localized community from becoming a pandemic effecting millions across the globe.
From the great plague to typhus to small pox and diseases that science has yet to find a cure for; the human race has always found a way to do better than what they were doing before a sickness gripped the hearts and minds of a population.
In the industrialized world, science has found a way for communities across the globe to thrive without the threat of illness affecting our daily lives.
With this feeling of comfort, societies have become complacent with a mind set of invincibility to the concern of living against the laws of nature.
Laws of nature that prevented the plague of illnesses that have become the headline story of the 21st century…
Illness that can’t be wiped out with a shot or the creation of a new standard of public cleanliness but must be combated in the minds of each and every human being on the planet…
Minds that are barraged with daily attacks from commercial advertisements, social folklore and a public disservice from a media driven by the same engines that allowed things to spin out of control.
For all the jibber jabber and double speak about fighting obesity across the globe the world public is still lacking a clear voice to address all the reasons why this is a war we’re never going to win.
A war that will require the dissemination of information that many people in the general public are not willing to listen to and the unraveling of a complicated puzzle that will open the door to a network of cozy relationships between government officials of industrialized nations and a food industry driven by corporate bottom lines more than a duty to consider the health and safety of their consumers.
Before Billion Dollar Corporation’s boar the majority of responsibility for feeding the world the public relied on the local farmers.
Local farmers that had a name and face when a family purchased products from local markets and felt a sense of responsibility when his consumers health was affected because of his work.
The reason for this concern was not from a sense of fear that revenue would not be coming in from word getting out about his products but was out of a sense of honor and the strive for a job being done right.
In today’s market place the idea of living natural has been replaced with a movement to make products more abundant for the purpose of affordability, chemical additions to extend product shelf life, increase of expediency and transformations to make food look more colorful and spike taste buds.
For these experiments with nature the human population has been stricken with the crisis of Obesity and other Health Concerns.
Health concerns that have come from our cost of living…
In what some would call an unfair trade food is now cheap and accessible but also comes with a heavy price in the deterioration of the overall health of the world population.
A deterioration that can be witnessed in hospitals across the globe with a growing cancer rate, more and more people being diagnosed with diabetes, an obesity pandemic, spikes in blood pressure and a lack of answers as to why all of this is happening to modern generations but was not a concern decades ago.
Over the course of time, the human race has come to understand the dangers of things that were once considered to be acceptable.
Expectant mothers were once told that it was fine to smoke and drink while pregnant until doctors and scientists made the hard decision to fight against the status quo to protect future generations much like the battles that occurred in the 1980’s to get information to the public about an AIDs epidemic that was once considered to be only a gay and bi-sexual disease.
While the optimistic side of my beliefs wants to fall back on the wisdom of humanity to somehow wake up as a race of people to the backwards logic in modern conversation the other side of my beliefs buried with the logic in front of our faces is telling me another story.
A story about how it is up to each and every one of us as individuals to find a way to protect ourselves from the damage that is being done to our bodies on a daily basis.
Damage that is coming in the form of ingredients listed on the side of cans, packaging, bottles and plastic containers that are going un-noticed until the time comes for a doctor to tell us the reasons why our health is being compromised.
In a fast paced world where agencies built to protect the health and general welfare of the public and media outlets built to serve as watchdogs for the public are doing a disservice to the communities they are supposed to be working for we have no choice but to find alternatives for ourselves.
Alternatives to the way we are told we are supposed to live and the kind of lives we set up for the next generation.
By gaining and passing on the knowledge needed to survive in a world unwilling to give open and transparent answers each and every one of us are doing our individual part to fix an epidemic.
The Quiet Pandemic of the 21st Century
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