Going green.

No, I am not envious of anyone, I am talking about the green environmental revolution. All of a sudden, every TV show is encouraging us to live green.
Don't drive, take the bus so that there will be less pollution.
Use paper bags or reusable bags at the grocery store not the plastic non biodegradable ones.
I can do all that, but the most difficult while living in America is to buy and eat organic foods!!! Is it really possible to eat organic grown foods in this country where all the peppers and tomatoes are so genetically engineered and coated with preservatives till they look like plastic and you might get cancer just from looking at them too long? Honestly after moving here I found new reasons to pray before I eat my meals. My prayers go something like this,
"Dear Lord, as I eat this chemically polluted food please keep my cells benign and may my beef taste like it actually came from a cow. Amen"

Seriously though, I can cook beef in 15 minutes and chicken in ten minutes! And did I mention that the chicken parts are huge?! There is no way those thighs and drumsticks came from a real chicken. I miss the taste of those free range chickens in Africa. You know the ones you get when you go to the village to visit your relatives and for some reason everyone feels like they need to give you a live chicken from their yard as a present? But man those birds tasted good. I am salivating just thinking about them. yummy yummy yummy!

My other problem with the food here is that genetically engineered food is much cheaper than the healthier and tastier naturally farm grown alternative. So what incentive does that give struggling young families like ours to eat healthier options when we are trying to save our pennies? It really is frustrating. If I lived in a house with a big yard, maybe i could just turn my backyard into a little farm and grow fruits and veggies that do not have potentially dangerous chemicals in them.

But on a more serious note though, God put us here as stewards of creation and it is our duty to keep our world clean by not polluting it with unnecessary gas emissions and trash. If we don't, where will our children live?