We are getting distracted by the cry of jobs, jobs, jobs. Because of the technology we have developed it is easier than ever before for us to choose a way of making a living and to actually create employment that can support ourselves and probably a good number of others as well. So why do we need huge corporations that will swallow up our kids and cast them off when machines can do stuff cheaper? Why do we need mega projects like the Gateway Pacific Terminal, that will store toxic coal to be shipped through endangered waters, that would be the largest coal port in our nation?
Just because we have been on this bullet train of “progress,” why do we just keep having to have more and more and bigger and bigger stuff?
We love our comfort food, we love delectable sweets. Many of us have been lucky enough to experience an age where these things lie at our fingertips every day. But what we are finding is that when the creation and assembly of that food is further out of our individual control, and our hunger for less nutritious food grows stronger, we become less healthy. After consideration of this, we consciously make the choice to turn off the ads, to keep less processed foods in our cupboards, and to return to a way of eating that makes us feel good again.
It’s time to make our past and current hard work pay off in a way that provides true food for future generations.
Dena Jensen
Birch Bay
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