30/07/2025
Yep! Woke up with all this going on in my head.
Somewhere along the line of industrialising our food, maybe one food company had a good idea: “Let’s find a way to keep food fresher for longer.” Fair enough. Less waste. Longer shelf life. But instead of stopping there, we opened Pandora’s pantry, and out came a flood of synthetic preservatives, additives, food stabilisers, anti-caking agents, you name it. Now they dominate every aisle, every box, every label.
And the kick in the guts is that it’s no longer about nourishing our bodies, it’s about engineering food that won’t rot. They’ve mastered the art of death prevention for food, but in doing so, they’ve created slow death for us, and most times a painful one as well.
The very microbes that should break down your food, microbes, bacteria, fungi, have a purpose. They’re Nature’s way of saying, “Eat me fresh, or not at all.” But instead, we kill them off, extend the use-by date, and destroy the delicate microbial balance of your own gut in the process.
And it doesn’t stop there. It’s not just the food. Open your cupboards. Your cleaning products. Your laundry powder. Your bathroom soaps. Nearly everything is filled with chemical concoctions designed to look pretty, smell fresh, foam up, and make you feel like it’s working. But guess what? The very ingredients that make your soap lather or your surface cleaner smell “morning sunrise” are toxic to your skin, your lungs, your hormones, and yep, your gut again! Now that can’t be good for you, can it?
But who’s questioning this? Does anyone ask questions anymore? Or do we all just nod along and accept that this is the way it is from here on?
Not me, mate!
I’m coming in with a swinging shovel, ready to knock this crap out of our homes, our gardens, our diets, and our lives. Because just like many of you, I’ve had enough. Enough of the poisons we’re told are “safe in small amounts.” Enough of the trade-off between convenience and health. Enough of pretending that just because it’s on a shelf, it’s harmless. Enough of people naively complaining about their health yet refusing to see that the root of it all starts with what they’re putting in their mouths every single day. You can’t treat the symptoms while ignoring the cause, especially when you’re swallowing it three times a day.
Think about it. If a sandwich can sit in a garage station fridge for a week without going mouldy or even going soggy then something’s not right. Moisture on bread should make it soft, sloppy, after a few hours. That’s how I remember it growing up. You had a small window before that sandwich turned to mush. But now? They sit there for days, neat and pristine. What the hell are they adding to the bread to stop that from happening?
We’re preserving profit margins, not human life. We’re feeding people lab-fabricated fillers that might look like food… but offer nothing to the living community inside us that actually runs our immune system, metabolism, mood, even our bloody brain.
And here’s where I need to say something important to my fellow home gardeners: if you’re growing food at home to escape the junk in the supermarket, but still feeding your soil synthetic fertilisers, chemical boosters, blue crystals, and white powders from a shiny bag, you’ve missed the point entirely.
Growing your own food isn’t just about control over what you eat, it’s about rebuilding the connection between the soil and your gut. Feed your garden like you’d feed your family. With real inputs. With matter that microbes understand. Because just like those packaged foods, some of the so-called “garden fertilisers” out there are filled with synthetic rubbish pretending to be natural. They look safe, they claim big results, but they quietly destroy the fungal networks, bacteria colonies, and living soil that your plants rely on.
Don’t get fooled by the labels. Turn the bag around. If it looks like it came from a lab and not a compost pile, it probably did.
Look around you. Autoimmune conditions? Through the roof. IBS, leaky gut, skin conditions, chronic fatigue, anxiety? Now considered “normal.” We’ve sterilised our food and our homes to the point where nothing alive can survive, inside or out.
And if you’re a food manufacturer and this makes you uncomfortable, good. That means it’s hitting the mark. If you’ve got a problem with what I’m saying, maybe it’s because deep down, you know it’s true. You know what’s going into those products. You know what’s being stripped out. And you know the health of millions is being traded for your shelf life and bottom line.
We can wrap it in fancy packaging and PR spin, but poison in a pretty box or package is still poison.
Start reading the ingredients, not the marketing slogans. If your food or your soap or your fertiliser has more numbers than words you can understand, bin it. Grow something, even a single herb. Buy from a real farmer, not a fluorescent-lit aisle. Stop spraying surfaces with science experiments. Stop feeding soil like it’s a hydroponic science project. Feed your soil real matter. Feed your body real food. Feed your skin with ingredients you’d actually eat. Because gut microbes, skin microbes, and soil microbes speak the same language, it’s the language of life. And it’s being silenced.
We’ve been conned. Food is no longer made to feed you, it’s made to survive logistics. Cleaning products aren’t made to clean, they’re made to foam, scent, and sell. And fertilisers aren’t always made to nourish, they’re made to push plants fast, regardless of what’s happening under the soil.
But your body isn’t a warehouse. Your gut isn’t a freight depot. Your skin isn’t plastic wrap. Your garden isn’t a factory floor. And your immune system isn’t a test lab.
It’s time we get back to basics. Back to soil. Back to fermentation. Back to food and soaps and gardens that live and breathe. Because if it doesn’t rot, it doesn’t belong in your gut, or on your skin, or in your soil.
Let the supermarkets keep their fake freshness. Me? I’m building real health, one compost heap, one lemon tree, one honest meal at a time.
Who's gonna swing that shovel with me?
Maresi! 👍
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