Barbara Kingsolver Quotes

Our Culture Is Not Unacquainted With The Idea Of Food As A Spiritually Loaded Commodity. We're Just Particular About Which Spiritual Arguments We'll Accept As Valid For Declining Certain Foods. Generally Unacceptable Reasons: Environmental Destruction, Energy Waste, The Poisoning Of Workers. Acceptable: It's Prohibited By A Holy Text. Set Down A Platter Of Country Ham In Front Of A Rabbi, An Imam, And A Buddhist Monk, And You May Have Just Conjured Three Different Visions Of Damnation. Guests With High Blood Pressure May Add A Fourth. Is It Such A Stretch, Then, To Make Moral Choices About Food Based On The Global Consequences Of Its Production And Transport?

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