Kari

“And here is the shocking plot twist: as farmers produced those extra calories, the food industry figured out how to get them into the bodies of people who didn't really want to eat 700 more calories a day.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

“You go to school so you can keep going to school so you can make enough money to hire the people who didn’t like school to come and do all the shit on your to-do list you never figured out how to do yourself because you were always in goddam school, eating school food while the deer you could be eating belongs to a herd that’s getting so goddam big they’re eating everybody’s pea crop and crapping all over the playing fields.”
― Kenneth M. Cadow, Gather

“If it crosses your mind that water running through hundreds of miles of open ditch in a desert will evaporate and end up full of concentrated salts and muck, then let me just tell you, that kind of negative thinking will never get you elected to public office in the state of Arizona. When this giant new tap turned on, developers drew up plans to roll pink stucco subdivisions across the desert in all directions. The rest of us were supposed to rejoice as the new flow rushed into our pipes, even as the city warned us this water was kind of special. They said it was okay to drink but don't put it in an aquarium because it would kill the fish.

Drink it we did, then, filled our coffee makers too, and mixed our children's juice concentrate with fluid that would gag a guppy. Oh, America the Beautiful, where are our standards? ”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

“Most of us are creatures so comforted by habit, it can take something on the order of religion to invoke new, more conscious behaviors--however glad we may be afterward that we went to the trouble.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life