Our Food and Health: At the Tipping Point |
Wednesday Sep 02 2009
By Sharon Knoll | Bio
I come from generations of food growers. And it is clear to me that eating is one of the most intimate of actions. We take into ourselves the whole of the plant or animal, including the environment in which it was raised and killed. We take in the work and the well-being, or lack of well-being, of those who feed us. When my daughter was younger and went through a McDonald’s phase she wanted to know why the meat didn’t taste as good as the grass-fed beef raised by some friends of ours. Their beautiful cattle were allowed to roam and eat the grass, rather than be fed in filthy feedlots, standing in manure.
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