Much of our food system depends on our not knowing much about it, beyond the price disclosed by the checkout scanner; cheapness and ignorance are mutually reinforcing. And it's a short way from not knowing who's at the other end of your food chain to not caring–to the carelessness of both producers and consumers that characterizes our economy today. Of course, the global economy couldn't very well function without this wall of ignorance and the indifference it breeds. This is why the American food industry and its international counterparts fight to keep their products from telling even the simplest stories–"dolphin safe," "humanely slaughtered," etc.–about how they were produced. The more knowledge people have about the way their food is produced, the more likely it is that their values–and not just "value"–will inform their purchasing decisions.
Michael PollanTag: ignorance industry omnivore american product michael food-safety dilemma food-chain food-regulation michael-pollan-omnivore-dilemma pollan purchase
Humans are so busy asking about who or what had built the pyramids.
For me, whoever had built pyramids, the message is so clear and simple,
"we are higher than human race in the food chain.
Tag: food-chain pyramid-builder
Mosquitoes remind us that we are not as high up on the food chain as we think.
Tom WilsonTag: life people food-chain reminder-reminder-life
In the inverted food chain of fame, it was the big beasts who were stalked and hunted
Robert GalbraithTag: fame food-chain
The Paradox of Sustenance: For an organism’s life to be continued; another organism’s life has to be discontinued.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTag: life paradox food death kill sustenance food-chain organism
The shorter the chain between raw food and fork, the fresher it is and the more transparent the system is.
Joel SalatinTag: system food-chain fresh
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