harvesting

If you harvesting your own food, I believe that yes there will be a stronger connection to the source of food opposed to buying in a convent store. When harvesting the food the connection will be stronger primarily because of the connection that you form with the harvesting item. I have been taught that if you work for something; putting your time, money, or energy into getting it, there seems to be more personal value. I can mostly relate this to my person life in terms of cooking. I ask the question is there a stronger connection between you and the food if you where to cook it personally vs. a fast food restaurant to cook it for you. In this situation I would say that when you cook your own item you know the process that the product went through to get to where it currently is. Spending your time to prepare it specially for your own specific taste. You know how you like it and that’s the way it will end up after personally prepared. If you go to a fast food restaurant, you have no idea of the process of preparing your food. You have no input and the presentation of your item will be different every time. You won’t have your specific taste that you like satisfying all your needs in terms of nutrition.

Another aspect of harvesting can been see as maintenance of your own meat; meaning the killing, cleaning, and eating of an animal. Personally I would be more likely to eat my own meat then those that are pre packaged. You have no idea what they do to their meat in preparation for packing. By partaking in your own personal system of producing meat you know everything about it and if something where to happen to you, you may be able to pinpoint where it came from. But by not preparing it yourself you have no idea of what you’re eating.

What I personally find funny is how on a box of cereal, mac & cheese, or any other pre boxed item the have the products that it was made from. If you look at some pre package meat items there is none. Why is this?

Books

Doorley, Tom and Johann Doorley. Grow and cook. Irish Books and Media Inc, 2007.

Drinkwater, Carol. The olive farm : a love story. Vision Australia Information and Library Service, 2005.