I am looking for answers..!

Goodness, they call it reading break. Before reading break started I had some very stressful, very hectic and busy weeks. It was chaotic, intense and crazy. There were a two consecutive days, with an essay, a sketchbook, and three midterms due or to do. It was nuts..
And then you have reading break. Glorious. Beautiful. Time off...
O wait! They recommend you read. Read tons. Work ahead. Start things that aren't due till, oh say mid March or early April. (Who's the crazy one?!) Don't they call it reading break, like a BREAK from reading?

Reading on the West Coast one summer... :D
now that was a break! 

Know what.. I don't get this. When you walk through the grocery store, or the Market at Redeemer, or any place where they sell fruit and vegetables they 'fresh' produce or something like that. Now I've been trying to see where my food is coming from. The other day I was buying bell peppers from Mexico!!! Frick, Mexico are we for real people? I worked in a greenhouse just this Christmas that grew peppers, and that's in our own country!!! Oh, and then the FRESH strawberries, from California.. How fresh can they be.. Were they picked like four days ago and that's why they're bruised, mushy, and not fresh? How about the U-Picks with strawberries here? Oh and don't strawberries grow in greenhouses here? Then there's these bags of frozen fruit we have in our freezer.... The frozen fruit brand 'Europe's Best' has strawberries, raspberries, and mixed frozen fruit... It says Europe in the brand name.. And they are all products from Chili!!! CHILI for Pete's sake.. Even the grapes are from Chili.. Guys that's South America!!! Like what in the world.. Wait -- where in the world do we live do we want to get our food from on demand?
Mini-carrots are product from the USA... That could be close by, I mean the US is ~2hrs from here, so not too bad. But they could be from Montana or Texas, that's not exactly close by.
The blueberries I just ate - they're fresh and cool right.. they're from Cali too. And the orange from Florida, the Pineapple from who knows where...
I LOVE FRUIT! Don't get me wrong. I LOVE VEGETABLES and if I could would eat them all day everyday. But really. Does it need to come from Mexico, California, Florida, Brasil, Chili?
At least the cucumber was from ON Canada, and the eggs were from inside this province as well. But seriously.. How far will we go to get our food..? How much money are we willing to spend, how much fuel burned in the planes to get food on our tables...? Is there a way to eat closer to home(if that makes sense)

WATCH THE VIDEO!
AND THINK ABOUT IT.. WHERE DO YOU LIVE?
WHERE DOES YOUR FOOD COME FROM? 

I know it's hard but just think about it.. please!

Also.. I went to buy some stuff at the Shoppers (drugstore/pharmacy) and found two of the same products right beside each other. Same brand, same product. O wait. Different price. Face cosmetic pads (you know those white round disk shape things to remove make-up with...) anyways.. the one kind was made with organic cotton. I checked the packaging - contents: 100% organic cotton. I checked the one that did not have organic on it, so the regular. It had no contents apparently. The non-organic were $4.29/pack of 80, the organic was $4.79/pack of 80. I bought the organic. I hope it's better for the environment, for the earth. I hope it is actually greener, like the packaging implies with it's green colour ink printed on the yucky plastic...

Organic Cotton

Have you ever realized how large packaging is for small products? The other day someone in my house was eating chicken wings. The box was on the the counter, it was at least 10x7x5 inch. It pissed me off. There were 12 chicken wings, inside a bag, inside this huge box that wasn't even half full. Like - Do we want to make it look like there's more food in it? Can we not use less cardboard? Or only plastic? Why two wrappings for one product? Same with cereal, crackers, KD (btw.. I DO NOT EAT KRAFT DINNER!). And when you buy a bag of chips it's only 2/3 filled. Or M&Ms and the like.. Like what are we doing? Making it seem like there's more in the bag than there actually is. I THINK WE'RE MISUSING OUR RESOURCES. NOT BEING GOOD STEWARDS. LYING TO OURSELVES AND THE REST OF THE WORLD. PRETENDING. 

Cereal in a bag in a box

HELLO!! WAKE UP!! WE'RE IN THE REAL WORLD. 

STOP PRETENDING! GET REAL!

PS. can someone tell me what Dutch Cocoa is? I see it everywhere on recipes. I have never heard of cocoa beans in the Netherlands. I had never heard of Dutch cocoa until I got to N-America.

Dutch Cocoa