{"id":324796,"date":"2017-09-06T11:11:32","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T10:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/nature-as-nurture-ancient-lessons-in-sacred-sustenance\/"},"modified":"2017-09-06T11:11:32","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T10:11:32","slug":"nature-as-nurture-ancient-lessons-in-sacred-sustenance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/nature-as-nurture-ancient-lessons-in-sacred-sustenance\/","title":{"rendered":"Nature as Nurture: Ancient Lessons in Sacred Sustenance"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Only by restoring the broken connections can we be healed.
\u2014 Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry,<\/em>\u00a0Counterpoint Press, 2002.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

We are a well-fed species.\u00a0 In general.\u00a0 I won\u2019t gloss over the fact that there are too many of us who are undernourished, even starving, but overall we feed ourselves\u2014particularly in the industrialized countries\u2013quite lavishly.\u00a0 So much so that a worldwide increase in excess weight and obesity are creating epidemics of associated disease, straining healthcare systems and shortening life spans<\/a> for the first time in many generations.<\/p>\n

There are numerous factors fueling this increase in our consumption, our size.\u00a0 We know that many of the industries involved in food production have cynically and deliberately lied to and manipulated us in order to boost profits, to avoid the natural consequence of marketing poison, and to turn investigative spotlights in other directions.\u00a0 Processed foods have become a seeming necessity for many, as the demands of everyday life cut into time that might have been spent purchasing and cooking from scratch.\u00a0 Then there is the ubiquitous array of technological devices which have nudged many of us into more sedentary lifestyles. Adults tend to work less on their feet, and children are seen playing more often bent over with cramped fingers than they are with joyous and out-flung bodies.\u00a0 The mindboggling variety and ready availability of food in 1st world…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Only by restoring the broken connections can we be healed.\u2014 Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry,\u00a0Counterpoint Press, 2002. We are a well-fed species.\u00a0 In general.\u00a0 I won\u2019t gloss over the fact that there are too many of us who are undernourished, even starving, but overall we feed ourselves\u2014particularly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-324796","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}