With the increasing consciousness of environmental and health concerns, the demand for more natural organic foods is naturally equally on the uprise..

There are a number of issues that immediately spring to my mind when I think of this comparatively recently coined term of phrase - "organic food". The first thing that strikes me, is how bizarre that the phrase has even come into existence in the first place! This I take as yet further evidence as to how topsy turvey this world has become. - I mean, "organic food" has been the norm for how many untold numbers of 1000s of years? And suddenly it is something really special! My own feeling is that the poisoned adultered crops should be the ones with the additional tag - "sprayed food", or "chemically exposed foods"..

Hmm, just additional food for thought, but not quite what I had in mind for the topic of the day... One other thing I'd like to briefly call to attention at this point, is that much of the so called "organic foods" that are becoming increasingly more commercially available, are grown with slaughter house bi-products added to the soils as fertilizers.. Blood and bone, not to mention the excessive amounts of animal shit.. Worth baring in mind if you are vegan.

But what I'd really like to call to attention here though, is a generally forgotten more traditional use of the word "organic" - Namely: "that which is characteristic of, and or, pertaining to, life and living organisms".

So, on the one hand, we have a method of labelling veggies, fruits and food in general as being unabused or uncontaminated by chemicals and poisons, and more traditionally, we have a word that basically refers to the lifeforce within the food.

Salt is a poison.. Physiologically, the human body is well adapted for processing organic, "living" food, and transforming it into the fuel the body needs in order to survive and maintain health.. Salt is not a food, as it is inorganic.. It is solely an appetite stimulator and serves no purpose other than to promote gluttony and excessive drinking.. Plants are rich in minerals that they are able to absorb from the earth and sunlight. Minerals in plants are not identical to minerals in the earth, sand, rock or sea water, as they have been converted by the plant to an organic state by the powers of miraculous nature, and thus, they are well suited to our bodies..

For the purpose of this article, I'd like to further define these 2 terms by drawing attention to their antonyms.. The "carrying of life" organic, has it's own semantical opposite, "inorganic", whereas the noncorrupted veggies, I tentatively label "non-organic".

With me so far??

Good, because this is where I start to twist the article around to raw food eating. I do declare! a pet subject. (You were given prior warning).

So, you went out of your way and paid 3 times as much for your organic loaf of bread, and your organic brown rice? Well, kid yourself no longer for your bread is "inorganic", and by the time the rice is on the spoon, chopsticks, chapati or whatever, it too will have suffered a similar fate and will have been rendered equally lifeless..

How can I say this? Because fire, bless it's little cotton socks, - destroys. It reverts structure back to Chaos.. At a distance, it may be life supportive, but up close and personal, it is nothing less than destructive. It's addition to food completely changes the molecular structure of the food.. To understand this more profoundly, here is an experiment. A very simple one. Take a cooked potato (you don't have to overdo it, just 10 minutes boiling is enough), and a raw one, and bury both in the ground. You will not have to wait too long to see the clear distinction.

It is this meaning of organic that I believe is given far too little consideration when choosing ones food. A widespread, global mistake.

Humans have somehow arrived at this warped logic that says "thou must eat good wholesome cooked meals daily, - or suffer the consequences". I propose the "thou must" be dropped from the equation, the logical expression "or" be changed to "and", and the combination "good wholesome" together with "cooked", be recognized as the oxymoron it profoundly is. (oxymorons are short expressions made up of words that fit together, but are fundamentally opposites.. As in "pretty ugly", or even more so, "military intelligence").

Once you have fully understood just how much, cooked food has demented our mind-sets, how much physical suffering it has caused, most every disease out there from colds to cancers, from chronic liver dis-ease to cardiac arrest (yes, the way to a (wo)mans heart(attack), is indeed through his/her stomach) - this would all disappear within a generation, if only we could kick the fire habit... Once this has been understood, you will be weeping and belly laughing at the complete folly of it all.

Yes, I state adamantly, inorganic matter is not, food for the body.

By writing this, I wish to state clearly at this point, that I by no means wish to undermine the importance of organic, as in not "nonorganic". Just, that is not my current focus of attention.

The infiltration of inorganic matter into our diets goes further than cooked meals.. There is also the question of mineral salts, and vitamin tablets.. Neither of which I see as having true food value.

Personally, I have to say that my feeling toward much of nutritional science is that it is complete hogwash. Terms of Vitamins, minerals, omega-3 fatty acids, and the like, are brandished by those supposing themselves "in the know", and used to bring fear and uncertainty to the masses, making meal times complex equations of carbohydrates and adequate fiber intake.. Even as vegans we are told we must take especial care to maintain our B12. B12? Now nobody will ever convince me that B12 is a food. What tree does it grow on? Reducing foods to tiny microscopic individual elements, and calling them by lettered and numbered combinations show how we have distanced ourselves from the true meaning of food. (-surely also, if a vegan diet is all it's cut out to be, superior to a fleshful one, then why should we take "especial" care? It's almost as if we are saying we are uncertain about our diet, and that indeed flesh eating might have it's advantages)..

Wordsworth the poet once wrote in one of his poems, "we murder to dissect". Think about this.

Proteins? We are a truly a strange species that eats proteins, vitamins and the like.. Yes, blatantly I doubt their authenticity.. I eat Food, fruit, not carbohydrates, whatever they are..

Here is another simple experiment, - Take an apple and slice it cleanly in half. Leave the 2 halves for 30 minutes or longer, and then look at them again.. What do you notice? The opened parts of the fruit have become brown and discoloured... Not so appealing any more.. Further, take an apple and grate it finely. How long does it take for the discolourization to begin? You will find that the smaller the segment of fruit, the quicker the sample will turn brown.. Put very simplistically, what is happening here is that the fruit is dieing. Through contact with air, the life force is being drained out of it. In "true" nutritional terms, it is loosing it's value as a food, and will, if left exposed long enough to the air eventually, sooner rather than later, be valueless as a food..

Now in those cold sterile scientific environments where food is dissected for further analyzations, the morsels are of such magnitude, that by the time they reach the microscope they are more than likely well past their use by date.. Such that what is being analyzed bears little resemblance or comparison to the true nutritional content of the food from which it was extracted..

I believe my body to be the best judge of what it may or may not need in terms of nutrition, and it is a ridiculous idea to me that we should follow a pattern in a book, or go to some one else and ask them what the body needs.

The only knowledge that is really needed is that food should be eaten in it's natural unadulterated state. Ripe and ready..

Eat Fruit, Live Long, and Prosper.
Hugs, Mango Wodzak.