We have built systems that rely on perverse incentives, giving massive subsidies in many countries that encourage the yield over environmental and health outcomes (for example, a focus on raw calories rather than nutrients). In richer nations, subsidies generally channel towards less healthy foods. Fruit and vegetables become luxuries, while heart
... See morePaul Behrens • The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: Futures from the Frontiers of Climate Science
If we experience healthy food as a coercion—as something requiring willpower—it can never taste delicious.
Bee Wilson • First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
Food has so much to teach us about nourishment, and as a culture we struggle with what it means to be not simply fed, but profoundly and holistically nourished.
Tish Harrison Warren • Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life
At either end of any food chain you find a biological system—a patch of soil, a human body—and the health of one is connected—literally—to the health of the other.
Michael Pollan • The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
was for some reason thought that the purpose of food was to provide the necessary minerals, vitamins, protein and energy, and that the job of the food industry was to supply them in as efficient a form possible.
