As soon as we understand that we have the power of the purse, companies will stop stocking the shelves of our stores with chemical-laden pseudo-food. The power of our distribution systems will refocus. Safe, local, natural food and herbs will become the norm. Our immune systems will heal. Our health care system will be free to turn its attention to healing those few diseases which are not self-induced. The solution is simple: Do not eat anything that did not have a mother.

When we do that, Presto. We can stop analyzing thousands of chemical components to see if they are “safe.” All those “natural flavor” factories can retool to go back to making industrial solvents. If the flavor were natural, it wouldn't need to be added.

Autoimmune diseases are not allergies, although some call them that. Rather, they are a wide-ranging set of symptoms that might occur when we are poisoned. Organ failure, skin rash, heart disease . . . all failures of the immune system.

Ingesting environmental poisons weakens the immunity. The weakened immunity responds with crossed signals and mixed messages. It interprets the data incorrectly. Inflammation appears and results in symptoms. Drugs may be taken to suppress the symptoms. Because the symptoms are suppressed, the causes are not addressed, the cause continues (ie poisoning). The action that caused the symptom is suppressed, and long term organ damage begins. Eventually, a doctor diagnoses the damage with the name of a disease, and drugs are taken for this “disease”. The drugs taken have a myriad of other side effects, which causes us to take more drugs to suppress those symptoms. Quality of life deteriorates. Health care costs rise.

This is why we must eat real food: It's not healthy to fool with Mother Nature.