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Our food system depends on consumers’ 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 consumers and producers.
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― The Omnivore's Dilemma
― The Omnivore's Dilemma
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Only from our position of power can we afford to ignore where things really come from, because we know that all things drain, like syrup through a pipeline, from the edges of the world into the centre. What we want will appear, as if by magic, on the shelves of our supermarkets because were have the money to pay for it. We don’t have to know - other people grow it and process it, and buy it and sell it until all we see is the brand, a language we understand without effort. All those strange subs
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― Home Cooking in the Global Village: Caribbean Food from Buccaneers to Ecotourists
― Home Cooking in the Global Village: Caribbean Food from Buccaneers to Ecotourists
