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Honestly, if you believe that the produce you get from your local supermarket is anything but horrible for both your body and our environment then you are sorely lacking in basic understanding of how the industrial agriculture systems of this world work. The problem is that most, if not all of the world's average consumers are ignorant to what good food looks like, what it nutritionally contains, and how to prepare it. For those of us living in cities, towns, or anywhere that large-scale production of livestock, produce, and food products are being grown/raised/processed, it is virtually impossible to acquire wholesome, properly grown, organic ingredients without long distance import. In most developed countries, the "organic" or "natural" food labels that commonly dot the supermarkets are unregulated by federal agencies and are aimed more at marketing than educating the consumer. Therefore, while it is cheaper to produce vast quantities of GMO cultivars that have been selected for their finishing time and yield as opposed to taste or nutritional content, it is neither more efficient nor more economically sensible to do so. Industrial agriculture destroys the Earth's soil through the use of chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and other substances that mutate the way plants grow. And in order to produce such amounts as to feed the staggering population of the U.S. these Big Farm corporations have been allowed to continue to engage in horrible acts of animal cruelty and environmental damage without repercussion. The development of new super bacteria and insects that can withstand the most toxic pesticides known to man has lead to the rise of new sicknesses and mutations on diseases that are untreatable in humans. The global food system is broken. It is a cheap simulacrum to what the natural process of food production really should be, and disrupts the symbiotic nature between humanity and our environment.