More ranting about food.

In yesterday's post, I complained about how we've gotten away from eating real food in favor of processed foods (I'm as guilty as anybody). Perhaps you think that means I'm a natural and organic food fanatic who shops at the local natural foods grocery. Those places feed our national eating disorder as much as conventional grocery stores.

After all, they always have an entire aisle devoted to supplements. You know, chemical extracts that are so unrelated to food that they more closely resemble the mysterious ingredients in your Twinkies from the 7-Eleven than actual meals or ingredients. To me, this is a sign of how dysfunctional we've become. Even the natural food types are swept away in a need to see food as a delivery device for macro-nutrients and micro-nutrients. Don't get me wrong, if you can afford it, I'm fine with foods grown or raised without hazardous chemicals using sustainable methods.

Still, how can the same stores that promote healthful provender also stock ths junk? How can anyone tolerate the cognitive noise of nutrition in pill form from a "natural" grocer?

CDs listened to today:

• Stephen Albert: Into Eclipse
• Beatles: Rubber Soul
• Bill Watrous: Manhattan Wildlife Refuge
• Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonatas for Cello And Piano, disk 2
• Jack DeJohnette: Parallel Realities