The Food Chain5 Joulu 2024

Ep. 1377 Real Food from Real Farmers - Guaranteed!

Michael Olson with Catherine Barr, Executive Director, Monterey Bay Area Certified Farmers Markets

In the 1826 edition of The Physiology of Taste, Jean Brillat-Savarin wrote, “Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are.”

Then in the 1863 edition of Spiritualism and Materialism, German philosopher Ludwig Feurerbach wrote, “A man is what he eats.”

Today, in the 1377th edition of the Food Chain Radio Show, Michael Olson is jumping into the conversation by saying, “If we are what we eat, then we are what our food ate.”

Following that thought will take us deep into the soil, where everything is eating everything. It is the great smorgasbord of life that we do not see, and therefore just take for granted, like we do with all that food that fills the grocers’ shelves.

But if we really want to know what we are, we must come to grips with what our food eats. That is not an easy thing to do, because so much of what we eat now comes to the table wrapped in fancy packaging from thousands of miles away. What that food has eaten should be listed on the package label, but that means we must trust in the truthfulness of whoever wrote the labels, and they are in the business of selling food to people they will never meet.

There is one way to really know what food our food has eaten, and that is to look directly into the eyes of the farmer who grew that food, and ask him or her. Aside from the farm itself, there is one place where one can shop and be guaranteed that the food for sale is real food. And so we ask:

Where can one be guaranteed the food for sale is real food from a real farmer?

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