Comments | seilf_emit: I give up

seilf_emit

I give up

Jun 21, 2010 18:47

I've tried, I really have, to buy local, organic products whenever possible. Not just because it's only fair to support the farmers who produced the stuff, but also because I don't want to pump my body full with hormones, antibiotics or weedkillers, thank you very much. But you know what? I give up. I now shop at the local discount supermarket ( Read more... )

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Comments 3

mellifluous_ink June 22 2010, 00:00:50 UTC

You do what you can. I've had to accept that I can't afford to be as eco-friendly as I want to be right now, and that more importantly that doesn't make me a bad person. It isn't that I can and don't--it's that I can't, fullstop. That makes a difference. What I can do is what I am doing--I try not to worry about things I am not able to do.

So, in short: don't feel guilty--you are doing what you can afford to do right now.

seilf_emit June 27 2010, 14:07:42 UTC

*sigh* Yeah, you're right. It's just... hard to accept. I hate feeling powerless, especially if it's something I care about. But you're right, I just have to try to do what I can do and not worry about the rest too much.

mellifluous_ink June 27 2010, 20:21:33 UTC

If you can, try and find a farmer's market in the area. That's a good place for cheap produce that is also from better sources than grocery stores. It's tastier too. This is just my experience with them in southern California, though. And I don't live in environmentalist land.

I know it's hard to feel powerless--my god, the fury and furstration and depression that get triggered when I'm looking for a job (because there's NOTHING you can do to get hired. It's the will of strangers)--but that's life, really. Even if we weren't stuck in a bad system, we'd be at the mercy of the weather or any number of other things.