Dear Corporate America --
We - meaning the American public - are living our every day lives and we need your help. When we go to the grocery store to buy a packaged product we have a few choices. 90% of the choices we are given represent non-green, non-healthy, non-organic products. That means our choice is not to purchase or to purchase the only thing available - unhealthy.
My plea is for corporate America to give us healthier choices. Packaging which is sustainable. Foods which are grown in the United States. Organic ingredients. The list goes on.
I am not asking for perfection. Most Americans find it challenging to eat wholly organic, for example. I do too. However, allowing consumers to purchase as many healthier-for-the-environment and healthier-for-our-family products as we can seems a smart way to help our economic viability return in the United States.
We are screaming for choices Corporate America. We are demanding them. Please make them happen.
Signed,
A Mother
Filed under: Food & Health, Green Family
Tags: Compost, compostable, food, organic, recycle, sustainable
I don't know how many are "screaming" for a healthier choice; rather, they would like to have some.
This will never happen unless there is mass demand, and then some practices, such as organic agriculture, does not lend itself to mass production or factory farming.
One start would be to convince people that they can grow a great amount of veggies in a small area, a portion of a city lot, especially if they use raised beds and containers and small greenhouses.
There really has to be a shifting in thinking for frankenfoods to disappear. Or to take the effort to grow you own.
Meanwhile, the Twinkie, which I wrote about, will survive. It has survived atomic blasts, after all.
You said it Richard!
Shawna