Eating

Wendell Berry writes, "I begin with the proposition that eating is an agricultural act. Eating ends the annual drama of the food economy that begins with planting and birth. Most eaters, however, are no longer aware that this is true. They think of food as an agricultural product, perhaps, but they do not think of themselves as participants in agriculture." http://www.ecoliteracy.org/publications/rsl/wendell-berry.html

In an article titled "The Ethics of Eating" Alice Waters writes "Eating is an agricultural and political act, as well as a way to educate our senses. May we always enjoy it — intensely, I hope! It can change the way we treat each other, and it can change the world." http://www.landinstitute.org/vnews/display.v/ART/1995/06/01/3aa7f5de9

Slow Food is an international association that promotes food and wine culture and defends food and agricultural biodiversity worldwide. It opposes the standardisation of taste, defends the need for consumer information, protects cultural identities tied to food and gastronomic traditions, safeguards foods and cultivation and processing techniques inherited from tradition and defend domestic and wild animal and vegetable species. Slow Food boasts 83,000 members worldwide and offices (in order of creation) in Italy, Germany, Switzerland, the USA, France, Japan, and Great Britain. http://www.slowfood.com/ The Slow Food movement

inspired Katherine Dunster of Bowen Island to initiate the Slow Islands movement.