Food Rebel

This article came through my Working Farm Collie listserve. The Linde's have a long way to go to become true food rebels, but I'm convinced that it is one of the most powerful changes we can make to truly affect change - environmental, humanitarian, health, and community. I am also now more acutely aware of how nearly impossible it is for small farmers to thrive and how hard they must work to serve their communities while putting food on their own tables, so to speak. And though we're now living rural, I know these kinds of choices can be made in the city and suburbs to which farmer's schlep their products, sometimes daily.

The paragraph below is a teaser. The full article can be read by clicking the title which is linked to the blog "Honest Meat." (Careful, my vegetarian friends, don't go wandering too far on this blog, there are some challenging pics for those of us who choose not to eat animals.)


So You Say You Want A Food Revolution
You go out to that hot, new restaurant with the tattooed chef that is putting on a whole animal, nose to tail special dinner. You bliss out on highfalutin pork rinds, braised pigs feet, rustic pate, and porchetta. A few months later you nibble on small bites as you stroll down the city street, blocked off for some weekend 'foodie' festival. You go back to your Monday-Friday workaday routine ordering pizza, buying some frozen chicken breasts at Costco ("hey, at least they are 'organic'"), subsisting through your hectic week (although you still have time for at least 2 hours a day of TV).  You manage to get to a farmers market about once a month, but the rest of the time your eggs and meat come from a blend of Costco, Trader Joe's, and maybe Whole Paycheck now and again. You like to think of yourself as a 'foodie', you watched Food Inc. with your mouth aghast, you own a few cookbooks.  Guess what? You are NOT changing the food system, not even close......