We want real food! But just what is real food? The question might be more complicated than you first think.

Today — in the developed world in particular — we are surrounded by a surfeit of so-called ‘good’ food. Never in Man’s history has food been so accessible, available and abundant. But at the same time as we, in the ‘west’, indulge daily in the ‘veritable cornucopia’ of largely processed comestibles that ’sustain’ us, elsewhere in the world (as any slightly informed person will know) there are millions starving, and thousands dying daily for want of food, and moreover a clean source of water…

we want real food and water

But this website and its creators, moved though they may be by the global plight of the ’starving millions’,  seeks not to examine the no doubt complex, political, commercial and probably largely immoral, reasons for this terrible imbalance (that important discussion is for another ‘virtual place’) but rather to look at the food issues at the other end of this scale of worldwide food misery… the supposedly ‘abundant’ end!

Yes, here in the west, we have seemingly endless supermarket shelves stacked skywards with a mesmerizing myriad of branded goods, garlanded with the halcyon hues of pristine plastic packaging devilishly designed to tempt and tantalize our bedazzled-eyes and encourage us wantonly to indulge of our hedonistic cravings! We are daily dogged by a multiplicity of marketing media that assault our ‘numbed-up-dumbed-down’ senses with the sole purpose of imprinting names and logos on our consciouness (or unconciousness) so that we unquestioningly and habitually select certain mass-produced processed-food products; each purchase of which serves simply to swell the bulging coffers of the food-manufacturing giants…

We are ’sold’ the concepts that today’s ‘kindly’ victuallers have ‘reformulated’ their wares to make them ‘less fat’, ‘less sugary’, ‘more nutrient rich’ and/or that their products actively induce some additional ‘health benefit’ (…such as lowering cholesterol, or boosting intestinal flora, or even improving our mental or physical performance!!)… And when none of these claims can be made blatantly, then labelling and design of packaging is contrived to send covert signals to our subconscious mind that makes us ‘assume’ and thus accept that a product is ‘good for us’… Take the much abused word ‘natural’ for instance! A staple feature of merchandising sales verbiage that seeks to assuage any (entirely reasonable) suspicions that we have that what we are consuming is indeed anything but natural!

western diet

The food industry has become an iconic exemplar of how perverted our society has become. Manufacturers so focused on ‘adding value’ that all we are buying is base, and largely nutritionally unneccessary, foodstuffs dressed-up to look like something special whilst in reality being simply ‘fluff and filler’.

Arguably the perversion of the ‘developed’ world’s food supply ‘may’ even be part of a deeper and more sinister agenda. You won’t have to search far on the Internet to discover multifarious fringe sources that seek to admonish us to this ‘reality’. But once again the purpose of this website is not to get drawn into the feverish imaginings of conspiratorial theorizing of a new-world of  mass-control and the plural portents of impending human enslavement and the eventual euthanasia of billions…

Shocking and difficult though it is to turn away from examining the travesty of exploited third world nations, forced for want of economic werewithal to produce ‘cheap food’ for the obese demands of other wealthier nations, rather than feed their own people… This website is not largely about this unforgivable scenario either…

We Want Real Food simply seeks to extol the virtues of a return to nature’s own practices when it comes to producing food.

That is to say that laying aside the glossy packaging, the manipulative marketing, the pseudo-scientific nutri-ceutical hyperbole, the world-food-shortage claptrap and hypotheses of the satanic machinations of the architects of an imagined new-world-order… this platform seeks only to promote one major idea: –

The concept that if every family returned to the once normal practice of producing as much of their own food as possible (after all, a properly cultivated small plot, or even a few ‘window boxes’ can produce the bulk of the vegetables a ‘typical’ family requires throughout the year, for example) — and if we break-free of the mass-produced-chemically-laden-factory-processed food culture to which we have apparently so willingly fallen prey — we will not only contribute to solving any commercially concocted concept of  a ‘fictitious’ world food crisis and the misguided ‘mad-doctor-meddlings’ of genetic modification… but we will also move back toward a healthier, better, fairer, more economical lifestyle in harmony with both nature and man’s true purpose and needs, as the original (and some might say intended)  ‘gardeners of the globe’!

To this end you will find our focus here is on those avenues that might hold hope for producing real and natural food once again. So we make no apologies for advocating organic principles in food production — indeed any method that reduces the intolerable unnaturally toxic-chemical burden on the blessed soil so common a feature of the commercially corrupted, insanely intensive, so-called modern farming practice.

We also suggest that the pioneers of the concept of permaculture, such as Bill Mollison, Geoff Lawton (e.g. see video below), Dave Jacke and numerous others, hold one important key to locking the door against supposed future  world food shortages — using natural strategies to reclaim barren land, and creating (far from an unneccessary abundance) a sensible sufficiency of food wherever such common sense approaches are implemented… This, then,  is our simple manifesto and the purpose of promoting and providing access to the resources we feature on “We Want Real Food”… We hope that they may be of interest.

Thanks for visiting. We hope that you too want ‘Real Food’ and we are pleased to receive your comments or suggestions via our contact page,

J. Anthelme
www.WeWantRealFood.com
“The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings…”
Masanobu Fukuoka

“Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are…”
Brillat-Savarin

More food for thought:

Permaculture

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