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Resources > Food > Reasons to Take Food Seriously
Instructions: create or pick one or more of these reasons that have personal meaning. Write them down in a list, and make several copies if useful. Post the lists as reminders for why you care about what you buy, grow, prepare, or eat.
I take food seriously because it can:
• Promote or interfere with feeling energetic and alive
• Promote or interfere with feeling and looking good
• Support or discourage high levels of mental and
• physical function
• Build community through shared growing, selling,
• preparing, or eating
• Impact the quality of air and water in wells, streams,
• rivers, aquifers, and oceans
• Empower or promote exploitation of people who grow,
• process, prepare, or provide it
• Enrich or deplete soils of nutrients
• Build or destroy soils
• Empower or displace communities, such as native groups
• in Central and South America
• Contribute to or decrease biodiversity
• Promote or discourage respectful treatment of animals
• Provide opportunities to model healthy behaviors for others
• Promote or interfere with recovery from workouts or illness