When planning a past backpacking trip, my husband and I perused the food aisle in our local outdoor store in search of vegetarian camp food. The shelf was stocked with the mainstream commercial brands. Curiously, we picked up several meal varieties and read the ingredients. The label listed all sorts of unrecognizable chemicals — toxins, perhaps? Yikes. Images of giant factory machines chugging out and injecting preservatives, vitamin additives, taste enhancers, stabilizers, and other chemicals into the food danced in our head. We wondered how many years each could […]
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