Eat Responsibly
7 ways to be a responsible eater:
1. Participate in food production to the extent that you can.
2. Prepare your own food.
3. Learn the origins of the food you buy, and buy food that is produced closest to your home.
4. Whenever possible, deal directly with a local farmer, gardener, or orchardist.
5. Learn, in self-defense, as much as you can of the economy and technology of industrial food production.
6. Learn what is involved in the best farming and gardening.
7. Learn as much as you can, by direct observation and experience if possible, of the life histories of the food species.
From The Pleasures of Eating by Wendell Berry.
When we eat food produced industrially, we give multi-national corporations the go ahead to make our food in secret, without accountability. They have abused this lack of accountability to produce the cheapest food possible at the fastest rate. In doing so they have ruined the soil, polluted our drinking water, spoiled the air we breathe, and abused the honest farmer and migrant worker with substandard wages.
The produce you get at Wal-Mart may be cheaper than food you buy at a local orchard or from a local farmer, but that is because you have already paid Wal-Mart with your taxes, which were given as subsidies to the agribusiness industry that grew that apple, the wheat in that bread, or the corn in that soda. Agribusiness has also ignored the costs of pollution and poor wages which it has passed on to others, so that you could have Low Prices Always.
Stick it to the man. Eat responsibly.
1. Participate in food production to the extent that you can.
2. Prepare your own food.
3. Learn the origins of the food you buy, and buy food that is produced closest to your home.
4. Whenever possible, deal directly with a local farmer, gardener, or orchardist.
5. Learn, in self-defense, as much as you can of the economy and technology of industrial food production.
6. Learn what is involved in the best farming and gardening.
7. Learn as much as you can, by direct observation and experience if possible, of the life histories of the food species.
From The Pleasures of Eating by Wendell Berry.
When we eat food produced industrially, we give multi-national corporations the go ahead to make our food in secret, without accountability. They have abused this lack of accountability to produce the cheapest food possible at the fastest rate. In doing so they have ruined the soil, polluted our drinking water, spoiled the air we breathe, and abused the honest farmer and migrant worker with substandard wages.
The produce you get at Wal-Mart may be cheaper than food you buy at a local orchard or from a local farmer, but that is because you have already paid Wal-Mart with your taxes, which were given as subsidies to the agribusiness industry that grew that apple, the wheat in that bread, or the corn in that soda. Agribusiness has also ignored the costs of pollution and poor wages which it has passed on to others, so that you could have Low Prices Always.
Stick it to the man. Eat responsibly.
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