Our relationship with food is one that is a major intersection of the mind-body-spirit-earth connection. This film, Sustainable Table: What's On Your Plate? takes a look at a dominant mindset that favors large-scale agriculture, pesticides, slaughter, meat-based diets, and ultimately produces illness and premature death.
There is a great deal that we can do to reverse these practices. Buy locally, organically grown foods, little or no meat, and get to know your local farmers! Talk to them. Ask them questions, and take as much responsibility as you can about your foods. If you have the ability, grow food in your own garden. Join a community supported agricultural group, and support a community garden.
We have grown up in a culture that has seen large-scale, pesticide driven farms as the "normal" way to produce food. This system of growing food and animal farming is a failed system, and we have to transition out of it. Farming is not something that only a few people should do. On some level, we all have to reincorporate it into our life, and the first step is simply supporting them financially so that they can exist.
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