Wendell Berry discusses how a disconnect between the consumer and food exists today. Due to creative in-your- face advertising, people, especially "city" people, don't realize what is going on during the farming to our table transition takes place daily. Berry describes a pureness that can only be found by giving animals the freedom to move around and graze like they should be doing, like they used to do prior to this idea of food industrialization. Berry catches the reader's attention by painting the picture of cows standing in their own excriment and calf's living very short and unhappy lives. As a reader, I can't help thinking about the animals living this way, and about how these nasty, unsanitary conditions is affecting our food supply, which will in turn affect our bodies.
Berry also brings up a good point about how people's apathy towards the food process of late. Just as everything else life, food has its own politics. He argues that if the consumer doesn't care or seek out information about the farming processes and the foods he or she eats, the consumer isn't taking part in a democratic society. In a sense, he saying the consumer isn't truly free.
Berry, W. (1990). The Pleasures of Eating. In WHAT ARE PEOPLE FOR? North Point Press. North Point Press.
Berry also brings up a good point about how people's apathy towards the food process of late. Just as everything else life, food has its own politics. He argues that if the consumer doesn't care or seek out information about the farming processes and the foods he or she eats, the consumer isn't taking part in a democratic society. In a sense, he saying the consumer isn't truly free.
Berry, W. (1990). The Pleasures of Eating. In WHAT ARE PEOPLE FOR? North Point Press. North Point Press.