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These days, my focus is on sustainability of all kinds - we really have to get in tune with ourselves and the natural world around us. There are a lot of initiatives to help people who are being exploited outside of North America and Europe, by corporations motivated by profits, but the same thing is happening in developed nations - the people here are on an extremely slipper slope. Small and local farmers grow most of the worlds food - not corporate agribusinesses, which are in the business of making profits, not food production. Awareness has to grow exponentially here in North America, because the same policies which are beating down small farming in far off nations are being being used on the general public here in North America - read the labels of the "foods" you are buying: they are all "highly processed" even milk, cheese and yoghurt - they are full of cheap fillers and thickeners, and other artificial ingredients. Increasingly, we are eating cheap, simulated foods, which aren't foods at all. In addition, fresh foods are brought from thousands of miles away; for example, Canada imports 93% of its fresh produce. This means the produce is nutritionally empty, pollution is created to bring it to market, and slave labor wages and methods are used to grow it and supply it. Wake up! Support not only small natural farming on the other side of the globe, but right here. Read the recent UN policy on food; also watch Prem Rawat's address to the United Nation's in 2010. Also check out the Weston Price Foundation, the Story of Milk, and the Whole Soy Story - the sad fact of the matter is that Corporate America has moved into the health food industry, and certain products which are being sold as healthy (such as soy, tofu and alfalfa sprouts are NOT)