The Breakfast From The Grocer Problem: 5 Ways Our Food System Hurts Us

Aldo Leopold was a twentieth century conservationist and masterly writer of A Sand County Almanac, a book practically overflowing with thought provoking observations. One of his most well known quotes addresses the “spiritual (relating to or affecting the human spirit) dangers” of not owning a farm:

“There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace.”

It is the first of these dangers I want to discuss today.