Soliloquy- Food by Deon M.

Sometimes I just sit back and think to myself…Am I really eating a balanced diet? Is what I’m eating really healthy for me? After all, it came from a bunch of animals pumped full of artificial chemicals. Chemicals that makes girls breast grow 60% bigger than average, and chemicals that contribute to the long-term diseases that plague our society; hormonal imbalance, obesity, and cancer. I mean…I know there is a choice between,world hunger, or bad quality food, but how can I be sure that nothing can be done to really increase the quality and nutrition value of my food? I DON’T WANT TO EAT GARBAGE! I rather deal with the insects, and low yielding foods of my predecessors! or at least like the Amish people upstate at worst. It really bothers me how dirty, and artificial they treat my food. For instance, I would go to a fruit stand, see the MOST beautiful apple, nice, shiny, full, and rip looking, and say to myself; wow! I would like that. After spending my hard earned wages on that apple, I bite into it to taste sourness, bitterness, and dryness. This is ok if it happens every so often, but this kind of thing happens ALL THE TIME! Comon! What do I have to do? This sickens me beyond parallel! Oh!…Another example, I buy meat at the butcher to find that its abnormally large in size, upon further inspection of the box I realized the meat was treated with a hormonal enhancer or some sort…ahhhh. Very troubling…There must be an alternative to this! Everywhere I turn, things of this nature are present! Perhaps it’s the city that I live in? I mean after all, there are absolutely no farms within 100 miles of this place! Maybe that’s why the food quality here sucks…Maybe I should start a little farm in my backyard? Wait! Ahhh…That wouldn’t work. All that disgusting crap that these cars put out will surely infect my precious foliage. What to do…What to do…I guess this is a long-term problem that needs a solution. I can become Amish and grow foods in amounts that only satisfy my needs? AHhh. Damit! I almost forgot! I’m going to have to live without electricity, gas, and other shit my life easy! Hell NO! Whoa, and no more cars? Never mind, I guess I have a good deal here in this city after all… I mean no one is really starving eh? People get sick, but wouldn’t they always? Just means that I might be better off becoming a doctor. I’ll just try to limit myself. Try to get hormone-free chicken, eat a lot of veggies, run, and work out, and get a woman who knows and understands all these things so when we have kids and I become financially free we can all move the hell out of this place! Wow that sounds like a grand idea! For now, I will have to suffer with this food, but I realize its not so bad after all. I have a plan, I have a goal, My life, family, and existence, is what’s left to unfold…