“but it’s so expensive…”

Almost without exception the first words I hear ,when I tell people that my diet contains as much organic fruit, veggies, nuts etc as I can get my hands on, are “but its so expensive”.

It seems to me that everyone is missing the point.

Is it because for the last 18 months of my life its no longer about the money that I see anything that goes IN my body as more of an investment than what goes ON my body?

Think about it for a minute, most people have no problem spending $100 on a pair of trainers that go ON their feet, or several hundred dollars on a big screen TV, or an excessive amount on a bottle of shampoo that has ylang ylang and essence of beaver nipple, right? So why are we happy to eat a dollars worth of fast food that actually goes IN TO our bodies solely because its cheap?

It doesn’t help that you can buy two or three cheeseburgers for the cost of a head of lettuce. It doesn’t help that virtually all the readily available convenient foods are more about making the company money than providing healthy nutrition.

Convenience foods may require us to part with less cash but its the other costs we should be more aware of. The cost to our health, the cost to our environment, the social cost of the production practices and ultimately the cost to the plants and animals as individual species that are hurtling towards extinction in their natural form as they get genetically modified to meet the demand that has been created.

Organic food may cost more financially but that is the only area in which the cost is high. Once you realise that its not all about the money, can you really afford not to eat organically?