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On Sentimental Activism

about succumbing to a guilty pleasure of the (aging?) activist, that is comfortable, and deadly, and usually not doing a damn thing.

Food, Land, Food For ThoughtMeredith LeighJanuary 15, 2021activism, food, food systems Comments

On Fat

If you’ve watched a pig ambling through a field, and seen it stop, and snuff the earth, then you know what I am talking about. Stop, snuff about you, as if to thoroughly ask: What is the offering? How will the body take it on?

Food For Thought, Land, Charcuterie, Food, Meat, ButcheryMeredith LeighOctober 27, 2020#fat, #goodfat, #storedbounty, #ethicalmeat, #ethicalmeathandbook, #confit, #rillettes, #terrine, #lardo, #foodforthought Comment

Conversation: Dr. Tristan Reader on Indigenous Food Sovereignty

An intro to Indigenous Food Sovereignty, and how it can inform positive activism.

Land, Food For Thought, FoodMeredith LeighJune 26, 2020#conversations, #realfood, #agriculture, #culture, #activism, #justice, #foodjustice, #foodsystems, #foodforthought, #nativepeople, #indigenousfoodComment

Meat School Episode 3: Humans as Part of Nature

Catastrophe is required.

Food For Thought, Land, MeatMeredith LeighMay 15, 2020#ethicalmeat, #nature, #sustainability, #business, #unlearning, #foodsystems, #foodactivism, #foodforthought, #food, #farming Comment

Meat School Episode 1: Will COVID Wake us up to Ethical Meat?

Food For Thought, Land, Meat, Food, Butchery, RecipesMeredith LeighApril 28, 2020#ethicalmeat, #agriculture, #realfood, #foodsystems, #localmeat, #regionalfoodComment

You are the Imaginative Ones. You are the Hope. The Revolutionaries.

That you are ignored is the surest sign that you're revolting…

Butchery, Charcuterie, Food, Food For Thought, Land, MeatMeredith LeighOctober 7, 2019#revolution, #ethicalmeat, #agriculture, #resilience, #holism, #realfood, #communityfood, #unlearning, #vision Comment

Cooking is the New Communism

on the smartness of millennials, truth-telling with yourself, aging, and finding joy in the struggle.

I made up a word.

What is the name for that valuable quality of the land-- the way it does such a breathtaking job of remembering every passage of plow or plant or flood, but somehow does not fail to renew?

Food For Thought, LandMeredith LeighJanuary 30, 2018#foodforthought, #ontheroadComment