I agree whole heartedly, but it's not nature I'm worried about, it's the freaking FDA and food processing plants..

Yes - I totally get what you mean.... I should have said ' do the best I can with what I know and let the cards fall where they may'.

You are all absolutely correct - who knows where this will all lead and what will happen to us all (MS or no MS).

I am "trying" to be proactive with what I put in my body.

You choose a gatorade drink that is blue colored, only to find it has high fructose corn syrup, AND the dye used to make it blue is made from ...petroleum! How is that allowable?

I try to stick to my local farms. I just got a half cow. No pink slime there! no ammonia either. I drink raw not processed milk. To pasteurize the milk the heat it from a live product till its dead. No probiotics, no live bacteria...it took me a while to find raw milk that we like, and tastes good.

We eat out of our gardens most of the year, but this year we ran short because we were so generous and had to supplement because while I was so sick DH was in charge of food gathering and prep. We are label readers, and were amazed at how many products are full of chemicals now. Full of sugar AND aspartame. Full of HFCS and sucrulose. Its scary! We started paying attention to the corn crops that are being grown in the heart lands and most of them are being grown "round up ready" or for Monsanto for use in pharmaceuticals. Beets are being grown for the sugar used as a base in many meds, and the change is here! we are no longer farming, because we are pharming! its scary to me that most of the corn grown today cannot be consumed by humans until its processed into high fructose corn syrup. Scary!

Start reading labels and you will be amazed at just how many chemicals are in your simple box of food.

I wish the cost of "cleaner" food would come down. It's hard to buy organic and unprocessed food because of the high prices.

I looked up "vegan" and "vegetarian" diets on Google just to see the differences and what is allowed. Made my head spin trying to decipher what's considered OK and what's not. My cognitive deficit definitely has slowed down my ability to understand things.

I get to the store and start reading labels and quickly become exhausted and overwhelmed. I only have about an hour (tops) until I start to fold and need to get back home. I guess I could look up what I need to know online before going but, inevatively, I find things I'm curious about and start reading.

If I could go to the store daily.....or even every other day.....it would be so much easier to buy fresh and eat fresh. But I can't do that so I end up purchasing more processed things than I want to.

I depend on Schwans to keep it clean. I sure hope they do?

Ask them, Sally. They should be able to tell you what they allow and what they don't.

I like the fact they list all ingredients of each item on their website. But if they use things like "pink slime" I'd want to know and seriously doubt they would list it....especially using something as descriptive as that.

I think people have probably ingested it without knowing it and it's just the term "slime" that grosses people out.

I'm afraid to ask...