Because the status is not quo.

Follow me.  Change something.  Change anything.  I'm not kidding.

Use less water, start composting, drink tap water, recycle, do all your errands in one outing, turn the lights off, turn the thermostat down one degree, use cloth napkins.  Pick one. 

I don't do all these things, change takes time.  I would like to do all these things and am working on crossing them off one by one.  There are other things I can do that aren't listed.  There are things that you can think of that won't even cross my mind.  Tell me about them, please.  I want to hear about what you want to do to change.  I want to know how you are going to make a difference.  Write it in the comments and do it in your life. 

I am guilty.  I have spent my whole life not caring about the planet that was created for us and the longer we mess things up, the worse our quality of life will be.  It is so obvious when our population's health is examined that some thing's not right.  Don't get me wrong, I love modern medicine.  I think it's great that technology is so incredible.  I love knowing what's going on halfway around the world.  I just think that sometimes we try to fix things that aren't broken.  Not everything has to be advanced.  Some things were better before they were fixed.

Food, for example. Who fixed our food?  I would like to slap that person.  In the face.  With a chair.

Why do we need to genetically modify our food?  I don't want to eat wheat with fish DNA.  I don't want  hybrids.  I want to eat blue potatoes, wild salmon, and ancient grains.  Why?  Because they taste better.  That's a pretty simple answer.  The food on the shelves isn't bad, I'm not against grocery store food (although, I don't like the pesticides used on them).  Grocery store food just isn't the best tasting.  There's a logical reason for that.  Back to the good ol' Industrial Revolution, the introduction of mass production changed how farmers chose their crops.  Foods were bred for mechanical harvesting, transportation, and shelf life.  As a result, we have fewer foods to chose from and many foods have been forgotten.  The good news is that the neatest veggies are making a comeback as people start to become advocates for their own health.  The more people who look deeper into what they consume, the more people become aware of heirloom vegetables. 

What is an heirloom?  An original seed that passed down through generations of growers.  I came across this because I wanted to know what kinds of foods to grow in my garden.  This is what I found.  The majority of seeds and seedlings that you can buy at a nursery are hybrids.  If you tried to save the seeds from a hybrid tomato and replant the next year, your tomato would not be the same.  You need to re breed the two parent plants again to produce the hybrid again.  This means that farmers, gardeners, and people like me would have to re buy their seeds each year.  $Cha-Ching$  With an heirloom vegetable, you buy it once and it's seeds are the same year after year.  Not to mention that each variety has a story and it's own unique history.  Oh, and they come in the most amazing shapes and colours!!  Blue potatoes, round carrots, green corn.  Why wouldn't you grow the most fantastic food on the block?  I'm going to teach my kids that corn doesn't have to be yellow, carrots don't have to be orange, and beans don't have to be green.  Our world is so much more beautiful than the isles of the grocery store. 

I just realized that I am way off topic and am supposed to be giving a pep talk about saving the planet, but growing food is a good thing to add to the list. 

Seriously though, tell me your ambitions!  Now.