Letter from Langdon: Land of Milk and Honey — Trading the good life for shelf life
Letter from Langdon: Land of Milk and Honey
04/23/2013
Industrial agriculture erases the identity of our food, filtering its origins as cleanly as removing bee pollen from honey. Just mix, blend, inject it with a brand – and it’s ready for a shelf near you.
Who made your food? In these changing times that’s becoming an important question. Maybe it’s something we should all ask more often as industrial food becomes rule over exception.
But what makes food industrial? With so many working families and no one staying home to cook every day, don’t we need fast food?
When we buy those things at the local burger store or chain supermarket, we get mostly what we expect. The public is well versed in what’s in industrial food–things like additives, drugs, antibiotics, hormones, preservatives.
Photo by zizzybaloobah Honey for sale in a Virginia food products store in Roanoke, Virginia.
We hear about that stuff all the time. Trading the good life for shelf life is the price we pay for fast-lane life in the land of milk and honey, America. MORE