(this, according to British scientists, is the formula for the perfect bacon sandwich)
there are a lot things happening right now that have me really thinking about food and my impact on animals and the environment.
now i know this sounds strange to say about what is probably the most suburbanite planned community in existence, but i can attribute a lot of eye-opening to my impending move up to anthem.... 30% of the community there was required to remain wild and undeveloped, so there are large desert washes and bunnies and turkey vultures looking for bunnies.
there has been so much hype and hoopla about 'going green' and organic products. phoenix needs to join the 'green' movement - and go brown. the amount of damage and displacement that the development here in the Valley does is staggering, and kudos to anthem for making an (albeit bland HOA approved shade of brown) effort to preserve what arizona is supposed to look like.
the damage done by poisonous pet food was another wake-up call, obviously.
and the clincher is that i have been reading a book lately called the way we eat which traces families' diets backwards from store to source. now i by no means purchase food from wal*mart, but the authors traced a typical family's groceries from that big box store back to the horrific processing plants and pig farms and the deplorable conditions that so many animals live and die in.
so remember that your dinner has a face not just a formula.
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