Instructions: create or pick one or more of these reasons that have personal meaning. Write them down in a list, and make several copies if useful. Post the lists as reminders for why you care about what you buy, grow, prepare, or eat.
I take food seriously because it can:
- Promote or interfere with
- Feeling energetic and alive
- Looking my best
- Recovery from workouts or illness
- Support or discourage high levels of mental and physical function
- Build community through shared growing, selling, preparing, or eating
- Impact the quality of air and water in wells, streams, rivers, aquifers, and oceans
- Be grown in ways that
- Enrich or deplete soils of nutrients
- Build or destroy soils
- Empower or displace communities (for example native groups in Central and South America)
- Contribute to or decrease biodiversity
- Promote or discourage respectful treatment of animals
- Enrich or deplete soils of nutrients
- Empower or promote exploitation of people growing, processing, preparing, or serving it
- Provide opportunities to model healthy behaviors for others