How Informed are Our Choices? - Part 1

This is the information age. It is the time where almost any question we have is answerable. Access to any information about any subject we care to know about is possible at little more than a few pressed buttons. That's wonderful - but why is it that so many people in this world are living nothing short of a toxic, unhealthy, potentially deadly lifestyle? If all of this information is available to us why do we not heed the warnings given?

I'm not talking about smoking causing cancer or greenhouse gases depleting the ozone - we all know about that. I'm talking about the everyday things we do, consume, buy, eat, drink, wear, use and TRUST. The corporations, products, professionals and governments we have allowed to blindfold us with their whitewashing - we have only ourselves to blame because we bought into it - and we still do.

In my first article "Taking Charge", I reflected on how moving our family to the country changed us, and how our lifestyle shift proved so beneficial for each family member - but it wasn't in the way that one first thinks. Sure, fresh air, wide open spaces and home grown vegetables play a huge part in day to day contentment. Pottering about the property is wonderful, no television is pure bliss and the absence of noise is a welcome break - but these benefits are just the tip of the iceberg. We needed to get away from "mass society", far from the toxic lifestyles we observed and sit outside the system and THINK. In doing this we slowed down, we reflected - and we questioned.

What we realised was that like we previously had, so many people were living a completely unhealthy life; physically, emotionally and spiritually, without even realising it. So many people are simply not informed about the things they take for granted every day, or the effects of our decisions on a global level - and I hope to assist in changing that.

That is what this article is really about - information. I have taken up as second nature questioning everything, and becoming informed on everything relevent to me - from childhood vaccines through to flouridation, effects of mass consumerism right down to the dirty details behind McDonalds restaurants. This has not helped with my concsience I might add, as this transition has forced me to re-think every decision I make, but being more aware will help me make my children more aware. An aware and caring society can do amazing things but it all starts on an individual level.

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