Unsere Ernährung heute - eine Kulturkrankheit

Abstract: Culture (cultura = agriculture) and nutrition have always been closely related, which was a guaranty for the development and health of mankind. Today, culture has been replaced by technology. In addition to the industrialized agriculture, a 5th large industrial branch, the foodprocessing industry has developed.As an example for the "toxic overall situation" in agriculture, the chemical fertilization and the fodder industry are presented, while the damage potentials are seen from the point of view of the foodprocessing industry in denaturation and chemical "processing". The purposeful turning away from living things is shown by the example of the "tomatoes in the pot". 200000 dead people due to the intoxication with pesticides should encourage new strategies of thinking!In order to form an opinion about the above mentioned situation, it is no longer sufficient today, to simply think in terms of cause and effect. With respect to nutrition, anthroposophy directs the attention from the substances to the "processes", especially to the synthesis and decomposition in the human organism, which are contrary to those in plants. The external light influences for the synthesis in plants correspond to the "internal light processes" in man. But in human beings they have a catabolic effect. In these processes, the higher elements of being of man are active, which are stressed by a denaturated or chemical and synthetic diet.By the activation of his ego willpower and his mental "light force" man might work against the nutritional tendencies which make him ill and therefore give new cultural impulses.

Keyword(s): Kultur

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