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emhakes's review against another edition
challenging
dark
funny
informative
reflective
medium-paced
3.75
strangertrails's review against another edition
informative
reflective
medium-paced
3.75
“This is to say, the great lesson of my time with groceries is that we have got the food system we deserve. The adage is all wrong: it’s not that we are what we eat, it’s that we eat the way we are. [...some very good words were written between this…] We are in a dialogue with this world, not at its mercy. We have a natural inclination toward what is right that is as powerful as any selfishness. But for those out there who bristle at this reflection (“retail grocery is a reflection”), who want to scream the patently obvious fact that meat is murder, that labor without choice is exploitation, or whatever their own personal horror is, who want to shake the world awake to the fact that we are literally sustaining ourselves on misery, who want reform, I very much don’t want to dissuade you so much as I want you to consider that any solution will come from outside our food system, so far outside it that thinking about food is only a distraction from the real work to be done. At best, food is an opening, like any maw, that might lead us inside. Somewhere darker, more unknowable, a place where the real work of change may finally begin.”
msmadison's review against another edition
1.0
Some bits were interesting, like the biographies of market pioneers. But the author's description of the female trucker is misogynistic and asinine.
emily_pns's review against another edition
dark
emotional
informative
sad
slow-paced
4.75
Amazingly well researched and surpr singly human, despite the heaps of facts and figures thrown at the reader. Such an eye opening read. Wish some more points could have been made to address the consumers role in this system.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Trafficking and Animal cruelty
theinkwyrm's review against another edition
The chapters are just so long and I don’t care enough about this topic to keep going.