our current food supply—which is genetically modified or engineered; grown in nutrient-depleted soils and fertilized with petrochemicals; shipped in boxes across thousands of miles; filled with antibiotic-, hormonally pumped livestock or farmed fish that is fed grain rather than grasses or algae, which are its native foods—can send the wrong signal
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The health of the human body is ultimately dependent on the health of habitat and community. And yet, this connection is almost universally ignored in modern health disciplines where biomedical reductionism rules the day. Human health and environmental preservation are treated as entirely different fields, with miles of empty space between them.
Frank Forencich • The Art is Long: Big Health and the New Warrior Activist
Most doctors—most humans, really—have unwittingly inherited a colonial worldview that emphasizes individual health, disconnecting illness from its social and historical contexts and obscuring our place in the web of life that makes us who we are.
Raj Patel • Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice
what if our distress is a perfectly normal response to a society that’s lost its way? What if unfettered capitalism is making us sick?