“The most conspicuous thing about suffering is, as W.H. Auden once observed, its banality. The day is green, the sun is shinging, someone is eating, or opening a window, the torturer's horse is scatching its innocent behind on a tree, and in a mere second someone we love is dead.” SufferingLove IsBehindsSunTreeEatingWindowHorseGreenMereInnocentOpeningBanalityAuden Book:In Sierra Leone Source: In Sierra Leone
“Until a vegan or vegetarian enters the room, people don't see themselves as meat-eaters. They are merely 'eaters', and it is we vegans who have made them aware of what they are doing. Often this is discomforting.” PeopleMadeRoomsFoodEatingMereFeministMeatVegetarianVeganEnteringDiscomfortRaising Awareness Author:Carol J. Adams
“One of the things that any kind of studies bring out is that the mere act of schooling - getting together, the organization involved, going to classes on time, and there're things being taught, sitting down with others with different backgrounds, chatting with them, and, sometimes when there are big barriers, eating together when there are school meals, which are big things together with a big social impact - they themselves have a major effect.” KindDifferentSometimesBigsSchoolTogetherSocialClassStudyEffectsTaughtInvolvedEatingMajorsSittingOrganizationImpactMereBackgroundsMealsBarriersBig ThingsSchoolingSitting DownChattingDifferent BackgroundsSocial ImpactEating Together Author:Amartya Sen
“The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal biology to an act of culture.” BodyCultureProcessCommunityAnimalFoodEatingMereMealsBiologyRitualReal Food Book:In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto Source: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
“The pleasure of eating should be an extensive pleasure, not that of the mere gourmet. People who know the garden in which their vegetables have grown and know that the garden is healthy will remember the beauty of the growing plants, perhaps in the dewy first light of morning when gardens are at their best. Such a memory involves itself with the food and is one of the pleasures of eating. (pg. 326, The Pleasures of Eating)” PeopleKnowsShouldFirstsLightRememberMemoriesPleasureMorningGrowingHealthyEatingGardenPlantMereVegetablesGourmet Book:What Are People For?: Essays Source: What Are People For?: Essays