For a while, I watched a lot of food documentaries available on Netflix. I figured if I was going to be watching something, might as well watch something educational, right? ;-)
The basic conclusions shown collectively were:
1) When you eat a fatty diet with lots of carbs and processed sugars, it's bad. Keep it clean and unprocessed!
2) But wait! If you kill animals, that's cruel...go vegan!
3) ...There's more! With plastics and BPA leaking into everything, our plants, oceans, and water sources are polluted and mutating us.
So unhelpful.
And then I saw this article today and had to laugh: http://www.medicaldaily.com/vegetarian-plant-based-diet-genetic-mutation-cancer-risk-380079
Now I can't tell you how valid the study was to which they're referring. Basically, everywhere you look, it's danger, danger, danger! Label everything! Down with GMOs! Down with eating animals! Down with fat! Down with non-fat! Down with...plants?
I think we all need to take a breath and chill. Just chill. Naturally we should be mindful of what we consume and whether we are good stewards of the earth. I'm not arguing against that. But I agree with certain Christian authors that have recently written about "diet America" ruining our meal times and sense of community, and that we should take a Eucharistic approach to food. Sure, let's go for real and wholesome as much as possible. But let's not lose our head over it in the process.
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