I had to get up early yesterday morning for class, so I ended up listening to some pre-8am NPR on my return to consciousness and discovered Living On Earth. Sure sounds like crunchy-granola hippy-liberal NPR radio to me. (Not that I necessarily mind, per se.) But I guess I often find the commentary to be just soooo depressing, and occasionally it gets this holier than thou tone that can certainly get old… but this particular show, at least on this particular morning, I just found to be interesting listening — cool stories that just happen to have something to do with people interacting directly with the the earth. (That’s little earth, not big, capital-E save the world Earth. Again, not that I mind. Interesting that I’m so self-conscious about it though. Somehow, giving a shit about the environment has suddenly become a BAD THING(tm). But I digress.)
First up, a story about eating food grown locally. (well, not actually up — I was half-asleep. I dreamt of apple trees and cider as the commentary seeped into my brain.)
“Home Grown”
McKIBBEN: …I don’t think I’m ever going back to eating the way I used to. I could give you a lot of good reasons