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Stop looking at my food!
I was reading a blog that said something like, it's really no one's business what anyone else eats, and I was yes, of course! But after mulling it over (and considering how many freakin books I read on the subject of food and food production I should not have needed to think about it that much) I had the *duh* moment when I remembered that while any one individual's choice is certainly none of my business, what we in general choose to eat pretty much is everyone's business.
What the people around me chooses affects what is available to eat and how much I pay for this food. I've benefited from the selections made by others that have resulted either in better quality food or at least more information on what we eat, so I'm grateful to that collective will, but the flip side of that is if the current food culture turned, if suddenly it was back to meat and potatoes all the time, I'd be pretty screwed.
Food is now such a controversial subject in the US, what with the moralizing and then the backlash of I WILL HAVE THIS COOKIE!, that I rarely discuss it to any great length with anyone besides Mr. L, who gets to hear way too much about factory farming and subsidies, the weird luxury of fresh, tasty vegetables and the not-that-slow death of Mexican food culture. Then he runs away.
The moralizing over food was what that blogger I mentioned was trying to poke at, but I came away thinking about interconnectedness, distribution chains and shifts in what we will allow to be sold to us as food.
What the people around me chooses affects what is available to eat and how much I pay for this food. I've benefited from the selections made by others that have resulted either in better quality food or at least more information on what we eat, so I'm grateful to that collective will, but the flip side of that is if the current food culture turned, if suddenly it was back to meat and potatoes all the time, I'd be pretty screwed.
Food is now such a controversial subject in the US, what with the moralizing and then the backlash of I WILL HAVE THIS COOKIE!, that I rarely discuss it to any great length with anyone besides Mr. L, who gets to hear way too much about factory farming and subsidies, the weird luxury of fresh, tasty vegetables and the not-that-slow death of Mexican food culture. Then he runs away.
The moralizing over food was what that blogger I mentioned was trying to poke at, but I came away thinking about interconnectedness, distribution chains and shifts in what we will allow to be sold to us as food.