Matindustrien i ferd med å oppfylle sitt mål!

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Skrevet av Øyvind, 2012-06-06 08:02:27

The specialization of production induces specialization of consumption. Patrons of the entertainment industry, for example, entertain themselves less and less and have become more and more passively dependent on commercial suppliers. This is certainly true also of patrons of the food industry, who have tended more and more to be mere consumers — passive, uncritical, and dependent. Indeed, this sort of consumption may be said to be one of the chief goals of industrial production. The food industrialists have by now persuaded millions of consumers to prefer food that is already prepared. They will grow, deliver, and cook your food for you and (just like your mother) beg you to eat it. That they do not yet offer to insert it, prechewed, into our mouth is only because they have found no profitable way to do so. We may rest assured that they would be glad to find such a way. The ideal industrial food consumer would be strapped to a table with a tube running from the food factory directly into his or her stomach. - Wendell Berry

http://www.ecoliteracy.org/essays/pleasures-eating

I dag har menneskelivet ingen annen verdi enn som en konsumentmaskin for industrien, for slik å oppfylle vår tids hellige gral, evig vekst! Alle bånd til naturen og til hverandre er kuttet, hva vi er blitt er "happiness machines" for korporasjonene:

http://permaculture.org.au/2010/05/20/the-century-of-self/