Food. We eat it everyday. We love it. We hate it. We are indifferent to it.
In this age of all things efficient and heartless, modern food stands out as one of the quintessential ways our collective lives have been done wrong by the mechanical logic of the Industrial Ages. Nothing typifies the violent disconnect we experience with those things that populate our daily lives like the very food we eat.
Such an ancient, sacred, and intimate act, and yet most of us know nothing about how our food is grown, who grew it-raised it-cared or didn't care for it-butchered it, how it got to us, and so on. Often we don't even care!
With this in mind, it came to me that perhaps a poignant visual journey through 21st century food system would be in order. It just so happens that I've happened upon just such a ticket. It's called We Feed the World and it take us to places we rarely ever see. Let's learn from it and be brave and then let's dig up our fuckin' driveways and plant tomatoes! YAAA!!! Come on!!!
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Starving Indian children! Give up your portion of a loaf of bread so that it might grow stale in a Viennese crouton warehouse. It only makes sense, economically speaking, and really what other ways of speaking make any sense? (Hint: None.)
Currently at the house where I am living, the three of us occupying the premises have taken to expanding our garden. We ripped up half our lawn, turned the soil and have planted a plethora of produce.
While I realize that I can't get all my ingredients from our garden, things such as fresh vegetables and herbs, once grown, will dominate my eating habits.
And that's a good thing.
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