This is really funny. Keep reading.
So, I try to teach my kids about keeping their bodies healthy. I think if I express ideas, time and again, maybe it'll sink in. And if they rebel, and eventually only want to eat Cheetos, I guess that's their right (hey, it's not like they're going apostate). I believe that pre-puberty, and shortly post-puberty is the most important time to eat healthy, and it gauges your health for the rest of your life. Also, if/when the day comes that my kids have kids, and they decide that, yes, they do care about health, they will have a wealth of knowledge. I've had to work hard for what I know and do, and I'm glad for my kids it can hopefully come naturally to them.
Well, I saw this documentary today on the site (sorry, I don't know how to post youtube videos on my blog), and I thought it'd be fun to watch part of it with Levi during Dana's nap. So we did, and he was super interested. I had to explain it all to him, so I explained, "Monsanto is a bad company. They put bad things into our food. They know that it's bad for us, but they do it anyway to make money. And they don't want us to know about it so we will keep buying their food." Levi ran to the fridge and got out a Clementine. "Is this bad for me?" "Well," I explained, "it's pretty good for you. It's not organic. I wish we had enough money to buy organic." [sidenote: I would normally just say yes but since the documentary was about GMOs and pesticides, I was probably being too detailed with my answer]. So he peeled it and started eating it and he found a seed. "Mom, look a seed!" Me: "Oh, yeah. That's weird. Those usually don't have seeds." Levi sat there playing with the seed for several minutes, then said, "I think I figured out what happened. Monsanto put it in there." I was laughing and explained that Heavenly Father put the seed in there, but the things Monsanto puts in there you can't see. And I'm still laughing.
But seriously, that company ticks me off. The whole food industry ticks me off. I wish, oh, I WISH we had the money to buy the kind of food I want to buy. Now I want to gather all my foodie friends around and talk about this documentary. It wasn't as interesting as Food Inc, just the way it was put together, but it is still interesting. Is it a date?
