production system pervert creates large quantities of food, tons of food, mainly produced in the countries of the South and completely wasted and consumed in the countries of the North. Let's look around, look at the refrigerator in our house, we enter the supermarket, look at what we have to cart, what we buy and what we eat. Never before has our society is producing and consuming huge quantities of meat, fruit, cereal without taking into account the limits of our planet, regardless of the waste, without taking into account the unequal distribution of food, the livelihood of our life as living beings (and not as beings consuming).
Our bellies are always round, always full, the overweight are increasing, we are all more than supercharged. And every product that we find in the supermarket has dozens of different brands, different flavors, different colors, different backgrounds and different packages. All sorted, all colors, all shiny, fat, rich, inviting and convenient. All this in the face of people who suffer from malnutrition and drink sewage.
My grandmother told me as a child: "Finish the dish that there are children dying of hunger." I always thought that I would gladly let any crumb of bread, and could not understand why if ever there was one who died of hunger I had to eat him. Behind my naivety was hidden a great truth and a great injustice.
Our dogs and our cats are too fat themselves, rather than eat our leftovers are many and that end up in the garbage, are fed with canned meat often produced and removed from the people of the South, forced on poor food conditions , also because of us. Latouche writes: "As long as Ethiopia and Somalia will be forced, while the famine raging in exporting food to our pets, as long as we fatten our cattle with the soybean paste produced from the ashes of the Amazon forests, we will hinder any attempt real autonomy in the South "[19].
fat that accumulate is the symbol of our arrogance, our greed, we can not hide behind but and however much longer. We need to change, lifestyle change first. Eat healthier, eat less, eat more fruit and vegetables sourced locally, eating meat only twice a week, we no longer buy bottled water, we have to get up from the table feeling satisfied even if your stomach still claims food. We then need to change the way we produce food, we must return to teach and learn the art of cultivating the land, grow plants and vegetables we need, to self-produce the largest number of objects, and we can. This will also mean better care the landscape, most genuine of our food, more satisfaction in eating, and regain lost skills and knowledge with the latest generations back and to repopulate the countryside leaving the chaos of big cities.
But the most important consequence of self will be to increase our independence from money.
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