The household that prepares its own meals (Berry)
October 21st, 2006 | Published in Food, Ecology, Consumerism, Agrarianism, Economics, Life, Quotes
The household that prepares its own meals in its own kitchen with some intelligent regard for nutritional value, and thus depends on the grocer only for selected raw materials, exercises an influence on the food industry that reaches from the store all the way back to the seedsman. The household that produces some or all of its own food will have a proportionally greater influence. The household that can provide some of its own pleasures will not be helplessly dependent on the entertainment industry, will influence it by not being helplessly dependent on it, and will not support it thoughtlessly out of boredom.
–Wendell Berry, “The Ecological Crisis as a Crisis of Character” in The Unsettling of America (1972), p. 24-25