Have started to think more about what goes into my system. if you drink a lot tap water and you live in the US, Australia, Asia. Its worth reading this article about flouride.
I drink a lot of green tea, so i was a little worried when i read this article here about tea
I buy (said to be organically grown) green tea from china via ebay, you might think that in China they don’t have organic standards, yet they do according to some articles online. Yet how to know if this is the real deal or not, without an independent inspection from out of China or do they have one already?
Toxic stuff getting into the food chain, what to think? People get paranoid about it all, yet really who how can you/i tell. I’m not sure if my mind flickers from one thing to another cause i’m into art culture or cause my head is full mutant particles invented to make sure we all stay down and confused. Although its nice to hear that fluoride has been banned in most western European countries.
anyway: I’m keen to find out if corporations that buy organic produce from China check the chemical composition of organic produce (via way of testing the soil at the farm) they sell in stores. It makes sense they would, yet if they knew that it was not really organic, would they bother testing. Royal jelly was banned at one point and also ginseng because of some high toxic element. Its said that ginseng can’t be produced without some form of pesticide, i don’t agree with that though. I also heard the same about apples.
I notice with the organic tea that i buy from China that i never get any kind of film on the top of the tea when it sits for a while. Other teas i buy often do, especially bagged tea. The organic tea seems to taste better than much of the other tea i buy.
As Europe can no-longer afford to buy farmed products from within Europe its interesting that now Europe turns to the developing world for some/much produce. Its interesting that developing countries mostly have far less regulation in industry than in Europe. Its great that the land/labor force is getting treated better (via regulation), yet if that means that the farms can’t compete with the global market and has to be given funding to stay afloat, its maybe a contradiction.
buying green tea: Its not great that i buy green tea from China, yet to find a good tea not from china, how? I reckon if I were to buy a cup of coffee (not that i drink coffee) grown on equal terms here in Oslo, it would cost around 50 US dollars. Where is the middle path, it seems the developed world has dissolved the working class here through global culture for some kind of weird beauracracy. People still work, yet work for things that they have no connection with. It seems impossible now to re-develop that connection. Wasn’t that the connection that created the culture. What to do, how to buy on par?
