I know pretty much how I should be eating.  I know what the industrial food complex does. I know how to read food labels. I know all that because I spent 14 years living with a vegan/health/natural/organic food zealot.  When I left her (for non-dietary reasons) I quickly backlashed against all that I’d learned in those 14 years (well, being vegetarian stuck for a while).

Then I went to work at Google, and I got to know the chefs there. They introduced me to a whole new level of gourmet food and cooking.  That got me thinking seriously about food.

Then I got hit with Type-1 diabetes (yeah.. wierd.. late onset Type-1).  That got me thinking even more seriously about food. For a while, but I slowly got lazy about it.

Recently I got the bug again and started diving into gourmet cooking with a vengeance.  I’ve been seriously looking at upscaling my ingredient choices: organic, local, seasonal, grass-fed, etc, etc.

So I was doing pretty well, I thought.

At dinner on Saturday a friend encouraged me to read “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” which had also been suggested several times before by other people. Ok. The audiobook was on iTunes and I have a lengthy commute, so I figured why not.

I’m on chapter 11 now… and damn.  I had no idea just how fucked up and plain bad the industrial food complex is… even if what’s in the book is an exaggeration. I’m on the verge of getting militant about my food choices.  Wholefoods is looking overly industrial (I do love their grassfed beef though… but need to get more background on that).  I just signed up for a local organic fresh produce delivery service.
Throw that in with my plan to do a monthly gourmet dinner party for small groups of close friends… and there’s going to be some fine food happening around here.

So my main goal is to eat less… but eat better… way, way better.  You should too.