Our toxic world

I’ve been writing an article in my head for months now, about how toxic our world is, how hard it is to avoid the chemicals in our foods, our water supply and our air. Each week that goes by I read more about what industry is doing to our poor little planet – our chicken is bleached with ammonia, Australian salmon are apparently fed dyes to make the flesh ‘nice and bright’ and it is a rarity to find a cleaning product without some form of poison destined to kill our water creatures.

I think this week’s prize goes to this little beauty which popped up on my facebook newsfeed:

The caption read: “Say hello to mechanically separated chicken. It’s what all fast-food chicken is made from—things like chicken nuggets and patties. Also, the processed frozen chicken in the stores is made from it. Basically, the entire chicken is smashed and pressed through a sieve—bones, eyes, guts, and all. it comes out looking like this. There’s more: because it’s crawling with bacteria, it will be washed with ammonia, soaked in it, actually. Then, because it tastes gross, it will be reflavored artificially. Then, because it is weirdly pink, it will be dyed with artificial color. But, hey, at least it tastes good, right?”

As if Jamie Oliver’s demonstration of how chicken nuggets are made isn’t bad enough..

It’s pretty overwhelming really, and most overwhelming of all is the relationship between these toxins and our kids.

So with several drafts of articles rattling around in my mind and scrawled on pieces of paper around my house (as they usually are!), I found another article in my newsfeed recently, called ‘Toxins and our children’. The article was posted on a website called ‘Natural Vitality Kids’. Hmmm, nice website name – felt familiar, I read the article which went like this:

I watched this video, which I have now embedded below. The video – and the article on the Natural Vitality Kids website is so extraordinary, I felt completely under qualified to comment on this myself at all.

What is extraordinary about this to me personally, is the fact that Natural Vitality Kids is a website created by a man called Peter Gillham in the USA. Peter Gillham was best man at my parent’s wedding…The world works in mysterious ways!

I recommend you watch this video – even just some of it – and read the article at www.naturalvitalitykids.com It is truly mindblowing.

But in the words of a recent Australian TV ad campaign about terrorism, the key to all of this is to be alert, not alarmed! We have to all become aware of this, and to take actions that we can take at home, and teach our kids important life lessons for their future and the future of our little green planet.

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