Food
I’ve been thinking a lot about food. I love to cook, I love to eat. The colors and tastes and textures are important to me. The organic or earth energy I feel when preparing grains and veggies is very fulfilling to some deep need I have, probably of being nurtured.
I feel a little betrayed lately because of how expensive food is becoming and I find myself longing for what I perceive are the good old days on my grandparents farm. Ah, the food! And the only cost was the labor. I can’t buy that kind of food anymore. And I don’t have the time for the labor.
I’ve been thinking a lot about my favorite foods which were originally created by what you could grow or forage and what was available. We didn’t use any chemicals and the fertilizer came from the barnyard.
Now, I pay premium prices for what my grandparents grew very cheaply. Something is wrong here and it isn’t surprising at all. We just blindly go down these paths like sheep it seems to me until we come to some kind of awakening and say, STOP! When did it get so crazy? Over periods of time these things insidiously creep by our unconscious awareness untill it is a crises.
Food is a crises now and very big money corporations and I’m looking around to see what I can do about that without giving up my love for a wide variety of foods from many cultures.
It isn’t even about the money anymore, it’s more about what is common sense, fair and equitable.
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Lovely article and very true. Unless we reduce food miles and support local growers we are on a slippery slope to food shortages and dependence on an increasingly meddling State.
Our grandparents didn’t have the luxury of wondering what was “fair and equitable” they simply had to eat.
I look forward to the day every home has a few chickens, a vegetable plot and some seasonal herbs and flowers to add sauce to what is after all a basic need.
Sharing and bartering excess produce, reduces food miles and puts us back in touch with the planet the seasons and our neighbour.
We have been conned by our governments into fretting about things on the other side of the world and becoming desensitived to the troubles facing farmers and growers in our own communities.
These people cannot compete with multi national supermarket chains.
Farm Animal welfare in Britain can be forgotten if we focus on the plight of Brazilian coffee growers?
Perhaps we should think global by all means but act local, where we do retain power?
Best Wishes and a lovely blog
Lilith
Thank you so much for your response Lilith (what a great name!). I couldn’t agree with you more about acting local and every house has a garden and a few chicks etc!! We do have some lovely farm cooperatives here in Nebraska and Iowa, and I hope they are getting more and more support as we move into the coming years of massive change.