Did I mention I live with my girlfriend - thus ‘we’ in the title? Well, that’s another story…

When I stopped eating meat all most 2 years ago, my friends told me that it’s not healthier, because of all the pesticides farmers use on plants. I didn’t really care and didn’t listen. But that fact stood there in the corner of my mind. I’ve listened to many people since then saying, “Don’t you know that you eat pesticides?” But somehow it still didn’t get to me. I even did a raw vegan diet for a month.

My girlfriend told how she realised that pesticides are real. She has a friend who is allergic to every pesticide. Whenever she eats apples, oranges, banananas etc that are not organic she gets physical reactions like rash. You could wash it really hard but still it would make her sick.

So, it’s there… ON your food and IN your food.

Boiled Frogg

“I don’t get rash and I have a strong immune system!” you say.

Have you heard about the experiment of boiled frogg? ( It’s cruel and is not legal anymore. I don’t certainly approve it, but if it’s allready done maby we can learn from it? )

The boiling frog story states that a frog can be boiled alive if the water is heated slowly enough — it is said that if a frog is placed in boiling water, it will jump out, but if it is placed in cold water that is slowly heated, it will never jump out.

Why is that? Because frogs nervous system accustoms with the heat. Change in temperature is so slow, the animal does not undrestand it’s killing it.

Maby we humans are in the same situation? We live in the pollution and eat all kinds of chemicals. Eventually when the “water get’s too hot”, we get cancer or heart attack or tumor and die.

The answer

In Estonia we found a shop that offers a bag full of 10 different organic products. The content differs every week and you can replace 2 items. Today we got:

• potatoes 2kg
• carrots 1kg
• turnip 40g
• beet 400g
• cabbage 600g
• bumpkin 1kg
• apple 1kg
• tomato puree 100g
• Vändra seedbread and forresthoney (Vändra is a place in Estona… oh, and I’m a vegan minus the honey part… It’s delicious and has many vitamins, minerals etc).

Everything is packaged in paper and the total cost is 200 EEK (17$ or 13 EUR). That’s cheap!

It feels absolutely great to eat something pure!