Commodified food severs the gratitude that makes eating nourishing

Evidence

But when the food does not come from a flock in the sky, when you don’t feel the warm feathers cool in your hand and know that a life has been given for yours, when there is no gratitude in return—that food may not satisfy. It may leave the spirit hungry while the belly is full. Something is broken when the food comes on a Styrofoam tray wrapped in slippery plastic, a carcass of a being whose only chance at life was a cramped cage. That is not a gift of life; it is a theft. — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 113

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Direct food-systems extension of ‘Grafting & Growth’ — where tree products were gifts, factory food is theft; connects to industrial farming critique.
• SHARE: The Styrofoam-tray image of a caged carcass is exactly the kind of passage to send a food-systems or eco-justice colleague.
• XREF: connects to: Gratitude practice can cure the psychosis of endless consumption — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 1394; Gratitude-based contentment subverts the consumer economy that depends on manufactured desire — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 392; The gratitude ethic toward food spans unrelated cultures worldwide. — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 684 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Gratitude practice can cure the psychosis of endless consumption #expands (0.85) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 1394
• Gratitude-based contentment subverts the consumer economy that depends on manufactured desire #expands (0.85) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 392
• Gifts create feeling-bonds that commodities do not #corroborates (0.85) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 98
• The gratitude ethic toward food spans unrelated cultures worldwide. #corroborates (0.80) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 684
• Eating appropriates another being by destroying and assimilating it #qualifies (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1414
• Gratitude in folklore can demand the ultimate sacrifice of life itself #qualifies (0.70) — , A Year of World Stories, 8823