On countless levels, a universal awakening has begun: the eagerly anticipated age of enlightenment, peace and understanding. The slumbering beast has awakened, experiencing a burning-bush moment. Success ensues  when we get out of the way. Enlightening your green food mentality simply indicates you’re learning and growing, the reason for being on this earthly plane.

Post Industrial Revolution food processing practices are at the root of the healthcare catastrophe, not us. To apply blame to this lunacy, we only need to face Capitol Hill’s good ole boys, lap-dogs of agribusiness. You didn’t cause disease rates to soar; they did. It was their inexpert Recommended Daily Allowances. Our only blunder was we trusted. Poor, substandard food, seasoned with colorfully decorated deception, raw greed and smart-bomb misinformation is enthusiastically endorsed by the deadened U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Plus, our “leaders” pat themselves on the back, seek photo-ops and constituent approval for sending low-grade food to distressed third-world countries. However, the ‘foods’ they dispatch are inferior to what’s available indigenously to these downtrodden.  White rice, all-purpose flour, sugar, succulent military meals-ready-to-eat, valueless canned food with Bisphenol A and canned SPAM are all nutritionally insolvent and exacerbate disease, providing little or no substantial nutrition, just unoccupied calories and self aggrandizement. Why not hold a gun to their heads?

Time’s ripe for “green” free thinkers to confront America’s current food Zeitgeist of industrial-strength, almost, but not quite  edible food-like substances and then to return to a lucid, wholesomely Locavore approach of eating and living designed by the  great creator. The current limelight on health indicates an admission we’ve been wrong; however, no one is held culpable.

I was shopping with the grandkids one afternoon when they noticed one section dedicated to “Health Foods.” Their astute observation, “Grandpa, if this is the healthy section, does it mean all the other food is unhealthy?” And a child will lead them.