Those who no longer have a connection with nature, with the animals whose lives we take for our food, and those who don’t live with animals, have lost something that in the end will turn out to have been very important.
I’ve been doing a “Hatching in the Classroom” program with local schools for 20 years – for many kids this is their first ever contact with a living animal. That’s scary.
Not only does industrial agriculture have no soul – our willingness to ignore how this industry puts cheap (in all senses of the word) food on our table robs us of our soul too.
Food for the Soul
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Published: August 23, 2009
The central problem with modern industrial agriculture is not just that it produces unhealthy food. More fundamentally, it has no soul.
