Becoming Food

Q3 Arts and Humanities
Matatu Pub Date : 2023-11-29 DOI:10.1163/18757421-05401003
Yvette Abrahams
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This paper takes a novel perspective on food studies by looking at the role humans play in being food. It encourages us to take a broader view of natural cycles by looking beyond life and death to imagine cycles of birth, life, death, decomposition and nourishment. Every life form feeds another life form; that is the way of Creation. This paper encourages people to think of food as sacrament, and of ourselves as part of a sacred ecology. What does it mean, then, to think of ourselves as food? What obligations does that impose on us to make sure that we are good eating? This essay suggests that eating organically grown food is important for many reasons, but not least because it respects this natural cycle. It does so through a discussion of Eve Balfour, otherwise known as the mother of organic farming. The importance of this topic is underlined by Balfour’s approach to saving the topsoil on which all civilizations depend. Balfour’s ideas on the crucial role of earthworms in soil preservation are examined, and it is suggested that we would do well to take these ideas to heart, and act.
成为食物
本文从食物研究的新角度出发,探讨人类在食物中扮演的角色。它鼓励我们以更广阔的视角看待自然循环,超越生与死,想象诞生、生命、死亡、分解和滋养的循环。每一种生命形式都为另一种生命形式提供养料;这就是造物之道。本文鼓励人们将食物视为圣物,将我们自己视为神圣生态的一部分。那么,将我们自己视为食物意味着什么?我们有什么义务确保自己吃得好呢?这篇文章认为,食用有机种植的食物非常重要,原因有很多,但最重要的是它尊重了这种自然循环。本文通过对被称为有机农业之母的夏娃-贝尔福(Eve Balfour)的讨论来阐述这一观点。贝尔福拯救所有文明赖以生存的表土的方法凸显了这一主题的重要性。本书探讨了贝尔福关于蚯蚓在土壤保护中的关键作用的观点,并建议我们将这些观点铭记于心,并付诸行动。
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Matatu Arts and Humanities-Literature and Literary Theory
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