Sunday, Feb. 21st

I watched an interesting documentary called The River Cottage treatment on the Sundance channel this morning. It was set in England and it involved a group of people who went to a farm to learn where exactly their food came from. The people were all non cooks and relied on "ready" meals (TV dinners on this side of the pond.) They were taken on a tour of the slaughter house after having fed and tended the livestock for a few days. It was surprisingly difficult for me to watch. I'm not a vegetarian. When I was growing up our beef came straight from cattle raised by my rancher grandparents via the deep freeze wrapped in white butcher paper. There is a movement afoot of self sustainibility. I keep going back and back again to Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.) book. It's interesting to me that in just generation or two how removed we've become from our food sources.