food for thought

"If I am going to eat meat, I want it to be from an animal that has lived a pleasant uncrowded life outdoors, on bountiful pasture, with good water nearby and trees for shade. And I am getting almost as fussy about food plants. I like to eat vegetables that have lived happily and healthily in good soil....People who know the garden in which their vegetables have grown...will remember the beauty of the growing plants, perhaps in the dewy first light of morning when the gardens are at their best. Such a memory involves itself with food and is one of the pleasures of eating....The same goes for eating meat. The thought of the calf contentedly grazing flavors the steak."

i am in total agreeance and a bit persnickety myself, Wendell Berry. Thank you for saying it so eloquently.

Quote taken from At Home in Nature by Rebecca Kneale Gould