Where Do Your Food Dollars Go?
Spending them consciously will help you savor your life
I’ve read some great stories about food, diet, and nutrition over the past few months. And I love reading about food because, well, first of all, I love food. I mean, who doesn’t?
But my interest has shot through the roof since I’ve gotten so obsessed with where my money goes. I’m not just talking about where the money goes from a budget standpoint and how it’s so easy for it to trickle away, a little at a time, with me hardly noticing.
Of course, that’s plenty important too. But I’m talking here about where my money goes after it leaves my bank account.
I want to know what kinds of practices I enable with my dollars. I want to know whether they’re working for good or for evil. Who is being supported by my purchases? Who is being harmed? That kind of thing.
That’s why I was happy to find Pascal Bedard’s story about the way we, as a society, outsource our food production. We let other people do our dirty work for us.
Even though Bedard’s writing is new to me, I’m very familiar with this phenomenon. Sometimes, when I tell people I’m vegetarian, they say, “Oh, I would be too if I had to kill animals myself to get my meat because I love animals.”
