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This is my first blog here (scary!), and I have to first say that I am by no means someone who is strict about what she eats. I try to be careful about how much fat and calories I consume and the amount of vegetables and fruits I’m putting into my body, but I eat a lot of “unnatural” products, too. Baked chips, parmesan Goldfish, the occasional instant ramen…it enters my mouth and I enjoy it…thoroughly. But, tonight, I came across this article in the special April 2010 issue of National Geographic entitled “Water: Our Thirsty World.”
“The Burden of Thirst” talks about the need for clean water around the world and, specifically, the lengths the women living in a small village in a district of southwestern Ethiopia have to go in order to get just a small bucket of it. Some facts straight from the article: One out of eight people lacks access to clean water; in greater terms, nearly 900 million people in the world have no access to it.
This got me thinking – we’re lucky enough to have access to such a rare thing. And, when we travel outside of the United States, we are extremely careful about drinking the water in these foreign countries. We’re warned to not use ice, drink from bottled water only and bring the purification pills. And, for the most part, we listen. So why have we not fully caught on to the sustainable food movement? Why are we still willing to eat and make food filled with antibiotics, pesticides, hormones and other unknown ingredients? It seems as if it could be equivalent to drinking water with all sorts of bacteria, but what do I know? At the very least, when I think about it in these terms, I’ll probably think twice about what I’m buying and ingesting.
For me, education is definitely part of the key, and it’s evident that that’s what FoodieLink is striving to do. We’ve learned over and over the importance of drinking enough (clean) water. I’m ready to move on to the next thing – food. And I think the rest of the nation is finally paying attention as well. Let’s learn, educate each other, spread the word and EAT! It’s good for us.
