Thursday, January 10, 2008

Disconnect: Food

We are disconnected from our source of food--meat, vegetable, grain. The life experience of the animal we consume is an enigma as we flavor it's flesh w/artificial flavors and offer no thanks for its life or its sacrifice. We are ignorant of the soil in which our vegetables and grains grow.

We drive our cars to the pretty brick buildings w/landscaped green space and we pull forth a cart to hold our goods and wares. We inspect the bagged apples, squeeze a melon and weigh the chosen. We smell the bread loaf and match our senses to the black printed date on the package--ah, good.

We pay the unknown behind the machine, collect our purchase and return to the home we left before our modern day scavenge.

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