act of resistance

For my act of resistance I wanted to address food and health issues seeing as we had Thanksgiving this past Thursday. I brainstormed many possible acts of resistance but I settled on boycotting pesticide laced vegetables and hormone injected meats by getting my family to eat a healthy Thanksgiving dinner with only organic produce and a free-range turkey. I did this because in today’s world, the market place is a dangerous one due to the unhealthy products being sold without a second thought on whether it is healthy or not. Personally, this appalls me and I think it needs to stop.
Although I didn’t have the time to make flyers and distribute them outside my local supermarket, I still was bent on conveying the importance of eating healthy to my family by avoiding vegetables that were grown with pesticides and a turkey that was raised in a corral where it was force fed and drugged with hormones to make it grow bigger and fatter.
Before I executed my act of resistance I did a little background research and found that common growth hormones found in meat can cause cancer and that pesticides used to simply keep bugs and other animals away from the vegetables also can cause cancer and neurological defects.
After finding this out I was even more driven to get my family to eat an all-organic Thanksgiving. I went about this task by calling all of my relatives that were going to make food and asked them very politely to only use organic products in their dishes/turkey. Of course all of my family members were more than happy to comply because not only was it healthy for us as a whole but it reduced the sales of harmful groceries sold by a very small percent, but maybe it will add up and help grocers realize that these products are not healthy and that they should not be sold.