The Unexpected Hippie
Jun. 8th, 2007 05:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nfotxnDespite coming from a long line of hippies I've always had an aversion to the label. I've used it casually as a derogate. I think ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bitterlawngnome's term for health food stores "Pill Dispensaries" is laser accurate. Nutraceutical seem to me a 60's mentality to health re-spun with historical mysticism and sold with pharmaceutical grade prices. Health is not a luxury to be sold. It's a basic human right.
Above all I don't like being told what the best thing is to do. Like most people. Give me information not dogma, please.
And yet these days I find myself at the Farmers Market with my own canvas bags. I'm using soap that smells like lemon grass and jam band concerts. I walk everywhere. I only use transit to visit my Mom or the gays in Toronto.
I promise never to politicize food unless an organic textured vegetable protein chicken wing runs for public office.
I approach the whole question of the environment like a total consumer whore. I need to buy things so is it worth a premium to buy things that employ local people, use less gas and, generally, taste better?
Absolutely.
bitterlawngnome's term for health food stores "Pill Dispensaries" is laser accurate. Nutraceutical seem to me a 60's mentality to health re-spun with historical mysticism and sold with pharmaceutical grade prices. Health is not a luxury to be sold. It's a basic human right. Above all I don't like being told what the best thing is to do. Like most people. Give me information not dogma, please.
And yet these days I find myself at the Farmers Market with my own canvas bags. I'm using soap that smells like lemon grass and jam band concerts. I walk everywhere. I only use transit to visit my Mom or the gays in Toronto.
I promise never to politicize food unless an organic textured vegetable protein chicken wing runs for public office.
I approach the whole question of the environment like a total consumer whore. I need to buy things so is it worth a premium to buy things that employ local people, use less gas and, generally, taste better?
Absolutely.
