I remember watching a documentary a few years back, about the level of disconnect that young people have with nature. How they view nature as somewhere dirty, with some of the young people even saying they would be scared to go into nature. The teenagers that were interviewed where all living in London. They felt much more comfortable in the city, than rambling in the countryside, where they would feel out of place. I remember thinking how sad, that they viewed our natural world in such a way.
It's been so important to me, that my girls grow up surrounded by nature, that they feel at home, surrounded by trees, nestled in by the mountains that surround the Valley we live in. Such a huge level of disconnect some have, it worries me really. So many, living out of balance with the world, with the natural world. I would be far more scared to walk alone in a city, than I ever would be in nature. I'm lucky there are no dangerous animals where I am (besides the humans, that is).
Just the other day, I was watching something and two of the people where discussing how a leek grows, whether or not part of it is in the ground or the whole of it is. I forget sometimes, that people are so far removed from the food they eat. It's like that clip where some people think chocolate milk comes from chocolate cows. People are just used to putting food in their mouths without even knowing where it comes from.
Yes, as you can guess I am one of those people that you will see in a shop reading the ingredients on a packet, if there are any E numbers, it's a no, also if there are too many ingredients, it's a no from me. I want to eat food, food that is as natural as possible. I have a bit of a soft spot for crisps though, luckily Spain is pretty good at making them with just chips, oil and seasoning. Yeah they are fried, but you know there are worst things out there, that I could be eating.
But what upsets me, is that there is so much shit being sold as food. Don't even get me started on the fact that we use chemicals to put on our fruit and veg to stop creatures eating it, but then we do. Those creatures are so much more intelligent than us, no? They know not to eat this poison. We poison our food, so we can eat it and we are told this is progress.
Yeah, us humans, we sure seem to be evolving, don't we? ( That's me being sarcastic, just in case you were wondering.) Of course there is method in this madness, a goal in mind, to make us more dependant on the system. On their system. But really, the only system we need, in my opinion, is the ecosystem.
( plus a few sound systems.)
( The images used in this post are mine.)
