Hippies and ‘all natural’ products
27 Oct
by Ben
I swear to God, if I hear one more fucking person use the term ‘all natural’ as a synonym for healthy I’m going to snap.
Plenty of natural things can kill you, like arsenic, snake venom and ebola. Just because something is natural doesn’t mean its good for you, it just means the company selling you the product knows damn well they can just put some pretty pictures on the box and jack up the price because you’re not just shopping for food, you’re shopping for an identity.
The natural world is precious and wonderful and should definitely be revered but it was not created specifically for us, its not like the entire ecosystem is conspiring in our favour and trying to come up with ways of pleasing us.
Also, this notion that tribal medicine is somehow superior to ours is just silly. Just because some tribe in Papua New rainforest uses a particular herb as a healing agent doesn’t mean its better to use than a pharmaceutical anti-inflammatory.
There is a tribe in Papua New Guinea that believes that an important rite of passage into manhood has to involve drinking the semen of your elders, I have my doubts that those guys are infallible sources of wisdom on topics as complex and dependant on modern technology as pharmacology and medicine. Get off my lawn.
I seem to agree with much of what you said however when I say all natural I personally mean it came from backyard garden. I don’t think you can buy anything from a store that is truly “all natural”. Thanks for a great post and I do hope you can take a moment of mindfullness and relax.