Welcome to my blog about food, health, and good sense

I am going to get straight to the point here. The food you eat impacts your health.

For example, how was it grown? Perhaps it was grown from genetically engineered or modified seed, kept weed-free with poisonous herbicides, and kept pest-free with frequent sprayings of poisonous insecticide, and on land so overused and sterile that it had to have tons of chemical (and frequently poisonous) fertilizers dumped on it just to get the plants to grow.

Do you REALLY want to eat that? Besides the food itself, you would be eating all the poisonous chemicals too. Good sense tells me I would not feed that junk to my worst enemy. The occurrence of many diseases and illnesses is on the rise--and we wonder why!

On the other hand, the food may have been grown organically. Organic growers do not use genetically modified or engineered seed. They might use hybrid seed, but that is altogether different. They control weeds with companion planting (squash with corn), mulching, or by hand pulling. Pests are kept at bay with companion planting (tomatoes with basil), beneficial predators, natural insecticides and repellents, hand plucking, and some good sense techniques, like working crushed egg shells into the soil around plants that are susceptible to soft bodied pests such as cutworms. The land has been enriched with compost and natural fertilizers. The crops are rotated to lessen soil nutrient depletion.

Now, that is the kind of food I want to eat! That is the kind of food I would feed my dog. That is the kind of food that will keep me and my dog healthy.

Let me know what you think and I hope you enjoy your next meal.