By Wendell Berry
Wendell Berry describes the importance of understanding the connection between eating and the land in order to extract pleasure from our food.
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The Slow Food movement organised a magical gathering of food communities—Terra Madre—which took place in Turin, Italy
This equating of money with wealth and wealth with wellbeing is misplaced on multiple counts. Money does not reflect nature’s wealth or people’s wealth, and it definitely fails to measure the wellbeing of society.
Hunger created by human greed is an expression of a violent and unjust world, a world out of balance. Fasting is a conscious choice to connect with the body, the Earth and the cosmos.
Why bother? That really is the big question facing us as individuals hoping to do something about climate change, and it’s not an easy one to answer.
The world’s agricultural lands make up a precious and finite resource; we should be using it to grow food for people, not for cars or cattle.
The pandemic is making the case not only for a different food system but for a radically different diet as well.