FOODIE FOLLIES

There is organic food, locally grown food, organically grown food, locally grown organic food, grown-in my-own-backyard food, farmers market food, and Whole Foods food. People want chickens without cages and beef without chemicals. They want lambs that have eaten only the sweetest grass and pigs that were allowed to enjoy life in the sunshine before they became ham. Boutique hand-tended organic beers abound. Water is bottled or filtered and guaranteed to be pure. Bread is whole grain. There are restaurants devoted to using only locally grown, organic ingredients. People are hungry for something, but what is it? Adults seek unadulterated lives. They are earnest, gluttonous, insatiable. But do they want to be healthy or do they want to be pure? If it is health they want, it is already too late; they have long-since ingested, imbibed, inhaled or inherited their eventual destruction. If it is purity they are after, they might have better luck eating a Christian, perhaps an organic, purity ring- wearing, locally grown, free-range Christian from the farmers market. But my guess is they will still be hungry, even if they eat everything but the ring.