I like to think about food like this: when the zombies come, or when whatever happens in The Road happens, and people start trolling for food, eating whatever they can find, and eventually turning on each other, it’ll be really helpful for as many of us as possible to be able to actually understand where food comes from, and how to provide it. I’ve followed this through enough to know that when there’s no time to stay and wait for plants to grow, we’ll be sprouting seeds in bags in our pockets, because it’s the only way to procure food while staying in motion. If we stop they’ll eat us.

I’m being dramatic but:

There’s a lot of hateful food out there. Let’s stick with McDonalds as our example.  Everything, from the places they’re getting their animal based foods, how those animals are treated, the lives they lead, how they’re killed, the lack of any nutritious value, the damage it can actually do to you, the lack of imagination or love in it’s actual production, or the taste (is McDonalds really delicious? I definitely view people who believe it is as wildly duped). Nothing about their food has any single living person or animal, or this earth’s best interests at heart. Perkins. Other fast food restaurants. Other chains. All of these places built for convience and price. Let’s be dramatic and say something does happen to these businesses (or maybe we’re being hopeful, here), places that many many many people have come to view as viable sensible sources of food for themselves and their families. People will be lost. Honestly, when someone says they hate tomatoes, my first thought is they’ve never actually tried a real tomato. Yeah. You hate tomatoes when all you know is the kind that come on a McDonalds hamburger.

This question is awesome, and I’m getting to my point, but it’s coming on the heels of probably the first food photo set I’ve posted that I had nothing to do with. I was actually feeling bad that of the Thanksgiving food photos that I posted, I stuffed the samosas and made the sweet potato marshmallow biscuits. My loving boyfriend baked the bread, made the curry blend, made the filling for the samosas, and made a blueberry apricot compote stuffed pinwheel cookies, not pictured. I made some paneer, but that man outperformed the fuck out of me. Most of the food pictures I post are projects we’ve spent hours on, true, but together. And we do want to have our own quail, and we have a garden that we work on together. He’s far cleaner than I am, which is something I’ve been making chore lists to try and be better at.

Things I agree with about the article, wholeheartedly: our current food system is broken. If I had a child, I would want to home school, or move somewhere where I could assertain my child would be in good hands. A lot of this has a lot to do with things really honestly needing to change. There’s so much power in being able to do things for yourself. Shelter, food, clothing, basic survival techniques in any climate. Shopping for clothing at places like Wal-mart, again an easy target. Everything, from how the fibers are procurred, the shapes and cuts of the fabrics, where they come from, how far they have to be shipped, who’s making it, what they’re getting paid. That stuff is hateful to me, too. If it’s about balance, it’s because people get that we need it.

I don’t believe it’s just women feeling this way, at all. That part of the article I’ll believe when I see actual believable statistics. I know just as many, if not more women than men who straight up refuse to take part in household chores, simply because they are liberated women. Even if that means that they have a cigarette in one hand, a drink in the other, and aren’t doing shit otherwise.