An approach to health
Our approach to health is very strange. The National Health Service is far from its name, it’s almost purely focused on cure rather than prevention. This was really drummed home to me again recently having visited my Grandad. He’s a very old man and not in good health now, but what’s so frightening is his list of pills for the day.
His doctor has clearly prescribed pills for virtually every ailment he has (which is quite a lot). The approach I found completely counter-intuitive; pharmaceuticals arguably have a place for treating specific ailments, but the modern pharmaceutical industry is a voracious industry that generates huge profits on the back of huge sales.
Why not prescibe health-promoting meals, perhaps some herbal medicine and some accupuncture, for instance? I am in no doubt that the pills my Grandad is taking, is massively contributing to his continuing ill health.
The approach of conventional medicine is very similar to that of the agro-chemical industry, and indeed many of the companies are the same. The approach to life underpinned by organic food should also be complemented by an alternative, holistic view of health as a positive state of being, rather than an absence of disease.
Ultimately in Organic Futures we must help to foster a new vision of healthy people and healthy land - the two are inseparable.