Poet, Farmer, Philosopher Wendell Berry on the pleasures of eating

[Guest guest]

Wendell Berry is one of my very favorite writers on the subject of food,

agriculture, and how/why/what we eat. An excellent article.

- ne

Wendell Berry: The Pleasure of Eating

A farmer and distinguished writer explains why it is vital that we

understand where and how our food is produced.

Excerpts:

" The passive American consumer, sitting down to a meal of pre-prepared

or fast food, confronts a platter covered with inert, anonymous

substances that have been processed, dyed, breaded, sauced, gravied,

ground, pulped, strained, blended, prettified, and sanitized beyond

resemblance to any part of any creature that ever lived. The products of

nature and agriculture have been made, to all appearances, the products

of industry. Both eater and eaten are thus in exile from biological

reality. "

" It would not do for the consumer to know that the hamburger she is

eating came from a steer who spent much of his life standing deep in his

own excrement in a feedlot, helping to pollute the local streams.... "

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