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  • From: Liz <liz@allslash.org>
  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] The Poor Get Diabetes; The Rich Get Local and Organic
  • Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:50:28 -0500

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




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