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Food health
Food health
involved in getting rid of the
madness called GMOs from
our food systems. So instead
of complaining that GMOs are
destroying our African organic
food system, let’s make it a
duty to start eating our organic
food and also be storing,
replanting and sharing the
seeds.
Number Four: It Will Help
Reset Our Food Systems
Back To Seasonal Eating
Ancient Africans were not
wayward in their eating, neither
was capitalism their reason for
farming. Our African ancestors
planted crops and ate food
according to season. Plants
were not forced to produce
outside of season using
technologies that were created
from capitalistic ideologies.
We have to understand that the
human body is very intelligent
and that intelligence includes
knowing what it needs for each
changing season. Also, this
intelligence involves eating
food or fruits that are readily
available in our environment.
This intelligence is the bedrock
of sustainability.
It does not even make sense
that we are forcing fruit trees
to produce fruits outside of
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their seasons simply because
we want to export them and
then turn back to complain of
an imbalance in our climate
and ecosystem. Have we lost so
much consciousness of reality
that we no longer remember
that nature is spiritual just as
we are spiritual beings? And
that how we perceive and use
nature is how our lives and
environment will turn out to
be? Please Africans, let’s stop
this thinking that we can do
whatever we like with nature
like the West and Europe are
doing and then not eat the
consequences of our actions.
We should know better.
Anyway, here is a video of
Joshua Maponga giving some
clarity on this thought on
seasonal eating.
Number Five: For The Sake
Of Posterity
Sometimes we sit back and
watch our beautiful young
Africans as they struggle
with their African identity.
They seem to have so much
information about many
things, largely based on what
they research or see on social
media but they are quite empty
of truth and wisdom of how
things truly work. They have
no strong antecedent of how
deep, strong and authentic
things were before the fakeness
and falsehood that came with
the internet that disrupted
our world. And that scares
me, to say the least. Anyway,
the only way that subsequent
generations of Africans after
us will even taste indigenous
organic fruits or food crops is
if we eat them now and also
plant them everywhere. So, my
people, instead of eating your
delicious African fruits or food
crops and throwing the seeds
in the dustbin, just separate the
seeds and while you are driving
or walking in open spaces or
even along the bush path, just
throw them around. They will
grow wherever they fall. And
that my friends, is wisdom that
does not cost any penny to do.
Number Six: Healthy
Environment
Indigenous crops be it
vegetables, fruits or others
don’t need fertilizer or
agrochemicals to plant or
grow. Except if they have been
compromised. They just grow
naturally, produce their fruits
in season and when they are
not in season, the trees rest.
We humans love to go on
vacations to shake off steam
and pressure but we don’t think