A food manifesto

It is too too complicated.

What role do soil organisms have on the nutritional value of our food?

Where do I start? Soil chemistry? Soil pH? Root architecture? Changes in bioavailablity? Changes to antinutrients? Changes in our plasma pH that stimulate a defense response (aka flavinoids?)

Reviews are too hard, too long, too boring. Im trying to write a textbook in 10 pages.



But all of these ideas are circulating, percolating. Everything Im reading about right now, everyone Im talking to, its all the same thing: What are we eating? Why are we eating this way? How should we eat?

For my health, the planet, my - what does Buddha call them? - my delusions?

And its not straightforward: science and philosophy must inform these decisions.

I come from a culture bereft of traditions.

A culture whose relationship with food and eating has been corrupted.

Factory farming and slaughter houses aside, the values I intuited surrounding food and meals in my life have been contradictory:

Food is good, food is bad.

Food is celebrated, food is just fuel.

Food is shared, food is sequestered.

Food has value, food is worthless (a freezer full of past due food).

I need a new manifesto. My own.