I’ve waited much of my life for a political movement that I can get totally behind. Finally, a rogue Democrat comes along and makes the MAHA movement a household phrase. Make America Healthy Again, is just shorthand for eating foods that are not saturated with preservatives, sugars, un-necessary spices and other chemicals.
When I was a kid, raised by a single mother, we had to eat pure foods; processed foods were more expensive than locally raised vegetables, farm to table meats and harvested foods like wild berries and wild game. Our diet was seasonal and depended on what was being harvested.
Over the years, the cost of transportation came down and the food industry began massive processing of foods, packaging them so that they would last a long time and reduce transportation waste.
That made food less expensive but added new chemicals to our diet. Humans may take generations to learn to process these intrusive ingredients. I asked myself what can I do to help with the MAHA movement. The answer is the new blog section in my website, A Taste Of The Wild. Many of my adventure stories include the struggles of protagonists in my books to feed themselves in dire circumstances. In many cases the solution is to harvest what is available and figure out how to prepare it.
Personally, I invest a lot of time every summer in gardening. I love to wander the hills of Alaska picking a half dozen different types of berries. I harvest wild salmon, halibut and wild game. That’s how I’ve fed my family for years.
Included in the A Taste Of The Wild blog will be some ideas and recipes of foods that minimize ultra processing, or eliminate those foods entirely. Let me know your own thoughts on MAHA food harvesting and eating. In return, I promise not to become too preachy about MAHA in my writing.