Monthly problems?

Have you ever wondered if you can eat tomatoes all year around? Because you can buy them all year round...

Have you ever asked yourself, when buying vegetables, if these vegetabes are actually suppossed to be available in that particular season, or did you just buy it because they were available in the store?

In case you did not know it already, certain vegetables are not suppossed to be available during the whole year. When you find a pumpkin in the store in March, you know that this pumpkin is Genetically Modified and that this pumpkin did not grow in a natural way.

Many companies are able to make certain vegetables and other products grow in other seasons then in which they are suppossed to grow. Of course you understand that this is not a natural way of growing and cultivating products.

Another way of making products available in the stores that are normally not available in that season, is by importing them from countries where they actually are available. In my opinion that is not a correct way either. We import products from other countries. By the time they get in our country they need to be sold quick because otherwise they won't be nice to eat anymore. Also, by the time they arrive in our country, a lot of costs are already made and a lot of vehicles are used to get them here. These vehicles deliver a lot of CO2 emissions, which is of course very bad for our environment. So by importing products from other countries, so we can eat these products all year round, we contaminate the environment.

The import of for example vegetables is a very big cause of the gobal warming. We, as population of the Earth, have to many requests and demands. We want to eat tomatoes, pumpkins, broccoli and certain fruits all year round. In this way the companies in this world feel the need to manipulate the growing of certain vegetables and other products. And next to that countries feel the need to import the products that they cannot produce or manipulate to grow themselves. Each and every company in this world wants to make profit. And each and every person in this world (at least most of them) want to eat what they like to eat the whole year round. One and one is two, so the companies decided to manipulate the growing of certain products or import them to fulfil the needs of the customers and to make as much money as possible.

What most peope forget is that the global warming is a big problem. And next to that people forget that in this way, when all products are available all year, these products aren't special anymore. When a product you like is only available from for example January until April, you are glad when it is January and you will even enjoy it more then when it is available the whole year round. Besides that, the product will taste better when it is actually naturally grown and not manipulated to grow. When you eat certain products in another season then in which they are suppossed to grow, you can also taste the difference. You can taste that they are manipulated to grow.

More and more restaurants cook with what is available in that certain season. Even more restaurants cultivate many vegetables themselves. I really think this is the future. I hope more and more restaurants will decide to only work with products from that particular season. To work with products that are naturally grown and not with products that are manipulated to grow or that are imported from countries far away from here.

If we want our children, grandchildren and their children to be able to live the same way as we do, we need to live in another way. We need to accept that we can only eat certain products in a certain period. We need to stop importing products from all over the world to fulfil our needs. In that way we can slow down the global warming and the changing of the earth.

Of course we need to do more and we need to change more things if we want our future generations to be able to enjoy the earth as much as we can, but I will talk about the other changes another time.

If you want to know more about which fruits and vegetables you can eat in which months, you can look at http://www.wisebread.com/fresh-fruits-and-vegetables-by-the-month

But for the love of food, think about what you eat, and when you eat it.