Listening to Barbara Kingsolver

"We have dealt to today's kids the statistical hand of a shorter life expectancy than their parents, which would be us, the ones taking care of them … Eating has become the boring act of poking the thing in our mouths, with no feeling for any other stage in the process.  It's a pretty obvious consequence that one should care little about the product.  Then I ponder the question of why we eat so much bad food on purpose, this is my best guess: alimentary alienation.  We can't feel how or why it hurts.  We're dying for an antidote."

-- from Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (2008)

"The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for.  And the most you can do is live inside that hope.  Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.  What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness.  Enough to eat, enough to go around.  The possibility that kids might one day grow up to be neither the destroyers nor the destroyed.  That’s about it.  Right now I'm living in that hope, running down its hallway and touching the walls on both sides."

-- from Animal Dreams (1990)

The Eastwood Food Project is one ingredient in the antidote.  Susan's Change Purse lives inside the hope for elementary kindness.