Vote With Your Fork

"You can simply stop participating in a system that abuses animals or poisons the water or squanders jet fuel flying asparagus around the world. You can vote with your fork, in other words, and you can do it three times a day." -- Michael Pollan


When I say "We eat well," I am not just talking about how healthy our food is. I'm talking about absolute aesthetic pleasure in a meal, and the satisfaction of eating it with family, but also of knowing where it came from, what's in it, who prepared it (me), and sometimes, having grown that food right out of the ground myself, or watched my friend and farmer pull it out of the ground for me.

I have so many friends that watched a food expose documentary, and were disgusted by our factory food system. So they didn't eat meat for a month, or they went to the grocery store determined to eat better and then saw what it was going to cost and scrapped the whole plan.

It doesn't have to be this way! I recognize the following:

1) Cheap food is cheap. Real food isn't. Most of us aren't rolling in disposable income.
2) Eating well takes time and preparation, and sometimes, skills that lots of us either have forgotten or don't have time for.

So that's the gap I'm hoping to fill. The gap between "If I could afford to eat better/had more time, I would" and actually doing it. It isn't about guilting yourself. It isn't about politics. It's a journey... one small choice... one small change -- one forkful -- at a time. Can a family eat well and sustainably without forking over half their paycheck? I think we can. Let's do it.