Food economy waste (Berry)
February 25th, 2008 | Published in Health, Food, Quotes, Culture
Much of the litter that now defaces our country is fairly directly caused by the massive secession or exclusion of most of our people from active participation in the food economy. We have made a social ideal of minimal involvement in the growing and cooking of foods. This is one of the dearest “liberations” of our affluence. Nevertheless, the more dependent we become on the industries of eating and drinking, the more waste we are going to produce.
—Wendell Berry, “Waste” in What Are People For? (1990), pp. 127-128.