Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Liz <liz@allslash.org>]

At 12:18 PM 1/10/2008, you wrote:

> When I was little Sesame Street used to air a video short about making
> soup - I think it was supposed to teach you Spanish because it was all in
> Spanish, but I don't remember the words so much as the visual...it took you
> into a small inner city shop, where the lady picked out a whole chicken that
> was not wrapped in plastic and Styrofoam, some carrots with the leafy tops
> on them, some rice from a bin with a scoop, and a couple of onions

Oh yes, going into an Asian or Hispanic store can be a shock for the 
average American. It smells like FOOD. The odor of meat and fish hits 
you the minute you open the door in some places. I don't mean it 
smells bad, it's just that most people don't know what raw flesh 
smells like. Meat is not usually wrapped up, unless there is a sheet 
of plastic over a whole tray or row of trays. It's right out there 
for the housewife to inspect. And the meat isn't already cut up into 
unidentifiable pieces--you can usually tell what part of the animal 
it came from (pig's heads, calves feet, whole livers, whole rabbits, 
etc, etc). I've noticed that a lot of people don't want their meat to 
look like the creature it came from. Birds seem to be an exception, 
but identifiable pieces of mammals make them nervous.

Liz in SW VA
http://life-as-a-spectator-sport.com