(Adapted from the Principia Pilot.)
The people I admire most are those who truly embody their values, and I strive to do the same. Some of my most basic and essential values stipulate the health and happiness of all humans and the natural treatment of animals and Earth. Why then, have I been eating food that denies those very things? Well, I’ve decided to stop.
The people I admire most are those who truly embody their values, and I strive to do the same. Some of my most basic and essential values stipulate the health and happiness of all humans and the natural treatment of animals and Earth. Why then, have I been eating food that denies those very things? Well, I’ve decided to stop.
“Modern eating is all about forgetting,” Harvey Ussery, a self-proclaimed modern homesteader, said. Perhaps more than forgetting, it’s about ignoring. It’s not necessarily our fault that most people don’t know much about where food comes from or how to grow it, which they could hardly help but know in times past.
But once we know even the first thing about food production, how can we consume meat and vegetables that rely on antibiotics and other chemicals to make it to our lunch lines—chemicals, those are, that sicken livestock, poison field workers, and pollute our waterways?
