Podcast
On Being with Krista Tippett
It recounts the Kingsolver family's experience of eating primarily food they grew or raised themselves for a year. The book explores the ethical and environmental implications of our food choices, contrasting industrial agriculture with sustainable practices.
I think what surprised me the most is that we didn't really miss anything.
— Episode: [Unedited] Barbara Kingsolver with Krist...
Episode: [Unedited] Barbara Kingsolver with Krista Tippett
It recounts the Kingsolver family's experience of eating primarily food they grew or raised themselves for a year. The book explores the ethical and environmental implications of our food choices, contrasting industrial agriculture with sustainable practices.
I think what surprised me the most is that we didn't really miss anything.
When we changed our thinking and started every meal with the question, what do we have? What's coming in right now? What's in season? What do we have plenty of? It became really a long exercising gratitude.
I think food culture and the way we look at food in this country has so much to do with why we act with us to a complete loss of control of our food system and our food sources.
In our culture we generally lack strong regional traditions of food that tie us to our place and our people, you know specific food traditions as they have an Italy for example or in India or Mexico or really almost anywhere.
The harvesting a rooster is allowing this animal to achieve it's final glory it was hatched it was born for one purpose on this earth these varieties of animals were invented by humans they're not wildlife.