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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

In America, The Decomposition of Imagination

It isn’t that I’m craving innocence. I’m craving a radical belief in the freedom of one’s own mind to invent and to serve justice.

Food For ThoughtMeredith LeighSeptember 4, 2018#foodforthought, #madsymposium, #travel, #activism, #oppression, #freedom, #opinion Comment

Hold Onto Wonder. It is the Best Resistance

A rotten ham is a smorgasbord of epiphany.

Food For Thought, CharcuterieMeredith LeighApril 17, 2018#foodforthought, #nature, #wonder, #mystery, #charcuterie Comments

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

The Two Small Deaths

Shit happens. Then it fertilizes things.

Food For ThoughtMeredith LeighApril 3, 2017#foodforthought, #farmingComment

Do Something Unrealistic

There is no such thing as small change. #beuseful

Meat, Food, Butchery, Food For ThoughtMeredith LeighNovember 23, 2015#meat, #slowmeat, #change, #charcuterie, #butchery, #butcherbook, #wholeanimal, #food, #foodforthoughtComment

This Applies to All Things Natural

WHO? No! YOU! You're better than fear, more complex and mysterious than a pyramid, more resilient and beautiful than you can imagine.

Parenting, Food, MeatMeredith LeighOctober 28, 2015#food, #foodforthought, #meat, #curedmeat, #headlines, #WHOComment