Eat like a Brasilian!!!!

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Thank you. I love fish, but as land locked as I am there are no mongers. I'll occasionly get fresh game fish from friends, but not often enough. I end up buying "talapia" from the supermarket. Yes the same talapia that eat the poo in water treatment facilities end up in supermarkets. I love me some salmon, but that's a spendy fish.

Wholesalers are seasonal, as in only during the summer.

My main habit is sugar. Sweet cereal in the morning and soda to drink. I'm slowly cutting that out.

There is a good butcher in my hometown that has excellent meat. Every time I go there I leave with a pound of bacon. It is soooo delicious. I need to cut back on that too. I've got all kinds of things to work on for the new year

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Just had a thought about the warnings on foods, you get them on high caffiene drinks but you rarely see 'not suitable for children or lactating women' on a food product.

There is a small island at the southern end of Japan. This place has the longest life expectancy in the world. Of course it is due to their diet which is rice, seafood and vegies. Most people on the island grow their own vegies and of course being an island the seafood is fresh. That's not all, Japan has a very strong food culture and most are interested in eating healthy.

On the flip side Japan has a lot of processed ready to eat foods and have had for a long time, babies are being born with health problems due to mum and dad living on such items. You don't hear about it because they're a minority.

Good food is hard to source for a couple of reasons. Fresh is not mass produced and will not travel far (if it does then obviously..........). It is much more profitable to scrape up leftovers, mix it with other rubbish and pump it with chemicals to stop it rotting.

Farmers as a whole don't get paid what they are worth. I had a good family friend (who is a farmer) tell me why. Farmers the world over will get paid just enough to make a living because if they made good profits they would sell up and live good while the rest of us try to source some food.

As Lutach pointed out, the people need to take steps to force an industry to change. Sounds big but it's simple really, just eat healthy. Cheap and nasty shit will always be available and has it's place but the only way to make it less profitable for the companies is to stop buying it!