It used to be that keeping a few free-range chickens, tending some grain-fed hogs, and raising a small vegetable garden was how people simply survived. Now these are often vanity projects for young hipsters and retired hedge-fund executives who have discovered the forgotten pleasures of “heirloom” tomatoes and artisanal sausage. Incredibly, we’ve reached a point in our society where things that humans have done for thousands of years—grow a vegetable, smoke or cure a piece of meat—now provide the grounds for smug satisfaction. (Think of Marie Antoinette at Versailles, playing shepherdess and milking the cows.)
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Oxford American - The Southern Magazine of Good Writing :: Warwick Sabin Ponders Why the Rich Get Thinner, the Poor Get Fatter (via champagnecandy) (via ilovefat)

Right ON!

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    Everyone should just shop at...farmer’s market.
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