Status Updates From We Are What We Eat: A Slow ...

Truthfully I made it ~60% through the first section “Fast Food Culture” before I skipped forward into the second section. I am finding it repetitive, especially as someone already bought in to the ideas (and I wonder if anyone picking up this book would be truly oblivious to the problems of our current food systems?) but skipping ahead helped.

“Convenience seduces us into losing our desire, confidence, and ability to do things for ourselves.”

Fast food values: not just about drive thrus, but how we have come to expect that all food be available at all times, taste the same, look the same, etc. and the alienation from the processes that create food that lead to environmental and societal degradation + author argues that all other issues in society relate back to this complex food system

“The power of food can change peoples’ lives, for better or for worse. Food can enhance our communities, humanize our institutions, and help heal and replenish the besieged environment. Or, food can destroy our health and our planet. We are all still witnessing the corruption and degradation of our lives and our environment, in this country and around the world, caused by the industrial food system.”

“I felt the possibility and potential of being part of a global food movement. That slogan from the 1970’s immediately came to mind: Think Globally, Act Locally.”