Dear friend,

Sometimes I wonder if the world is getting a better place to live now than what it was or if people are just getting better to hide the truth. It's hard to tell!

Let's say food for example. You can never be 100% sure what's in something nowadays. Unless you grow it or make it yourself! Something’s that you make yourself might be healthy or not many ingredients but buying it in a shop will be full of additives, colorings and other bad things.

I once heard someone say "If you can read and understand the back of a product, the product is fine to have." Well with all the letters and stupid names of things it's hard to know what we are putting in our mouths. The manufacturers are pretending that 'putting another name for example gelatin will make the consumer think it's not animal fat in our sweets'. But imagine if some sweet would say:
Ingredients: Sugar, Water, Animal fat and paint.

Would we eat it? Probably not! But the scary thing is that we already eat things like that! Or at least I think I do... How do I know for sure??

I'm not gonna say it was definitely better at the time when everyone made their own food, clothes or even toilet paper because I like when things develop! And I love different cultures sharing their knowledge so I can learn more! But it was better back when people cared more I think. Where things are from, how they are prepared even how people are treated!

Have people stopped caring about things like that or are we just not bothered?
I want to care more and I really want to know more! Why aren't things simpler? I don't know what type of tree my apple fell from. Or if my strawberries were secretly shipped from a different country (does the country on the packaging mean where it was put in the box or where it was grown?). Did they use chemicals to make them look so delicious?

Sometimes I think it might just be easier if I lived in a little hut in the woods (somewhere on a different planet of course, or else I might breathe in some chemicals). Or would that make life too hard?

Have you got any advice?

Love Suembi Lue x x