"Let everyone sweep in front of his (or her) own door, and the world will be clean."

"Let everyone sweep in front of his (or her) own door, and the world will be clean."
-Johann Wolfgan Von Goethe

What a simple yet eminent truth. There is a natural order of things in this world. A way of life that benefits your body, your relationship to others and your alliance with the environment you inhabit. You are made to be whole and well. Part of living in this "wholeness" is making good choices and realizing that the decisions we live out daily don't just effect us. What consumer power we have shapes the world's economy and our relationship to the earth through our environmental effect these decisions make. Our actions and how clean we keep our "porches" and our bodies greatly effects the earth and the future stability of humankind.

Our response through our consumerism has vast reaching effects. You could say our inaction is just as powerful. It has an impact on the hands growing the food and the communities this growth either exploits or benefits. Take that process further and our buying power effects the earth's environmental condition. The UN reports, "Almost a fifth of the emissions that contribute to global warming come from livestock...more emissions than from all the world's cars, trucks and planes combined!" This is not referring to healthy grass pastured and humanely raised animals. This is in reference to the military industrial complex that has taken over our agricultural sector and has exploited innocent animals and our environment. There are countless ways our decisions are effecting the earths' health: Plastics in the ocean, coral wastelands due to toxic waste from animals, deforestation due to our obsession with the consumption and harvesting of meat. These are all heavy subjects, our decisions create corpulent realities. But the tremendous thing is once you know, you then have a choice, a responsibility to do what is right. Not just what is right or convenient for you, but what benefits all things. Let's make choices that lead to health and wellness not death and deprivation. Cause we do have a choice...

What a great life this is that we have this immense opportunity to respond in any way we see fit. Let us feel the weight of this responsibility and let us ascend to the best us. Let us be conscious eaters and consumers of all kinds. Come see us at The Wellness Kitchen and order some Healing Foods for yourself and your loved ones. Rest assured that the food you're eating is not in the spirit of exploitation or abuse. But live in the truth that your choice is adding to the health and wellness of your body and the world. You will have more energy, you will have a greater capacity for mental stability. Your body will flourish when it has what it needs. And you will know that you are a part of a healthy world economy and there is dignity and pride in that. And as always this is Sarah encouraging you to eat peacefully....