You Are Where You Eat Talking Points

You Are Where You Eat, in contrast, was exactly what I thought it would be.  The authors said more of the same on what we've already heard from Eating Animals, Food Inc., and bits of eaarth and Jensen's speech.  Things it highlighted include the greater variety of foods available to Indigenous People, how the variety allowed them to be a healthier, heartier people, how the community aspect of Indigenous life made people very aware of what they ate, how they grew it, and how they ate it.  We hear again about how a return to native food sources can resurrect old feelings of responsibility to ourselves and to the land, and return us to a vibrant, sustainable, healthy lifestyle.  With more variety of plant and animal life, we are more likely to have options when climate change starts hitting the food supply hard, because we'll have plants for droughts and floods. I can understand why Dr. Taylor didn't want to waste time with a discussion on this section.  It is because it is all stuff we have already heard.  There are some semi-new ideas, but these are mainly old ideas verbalized.  You Are Where You Eat offers little new to chew on.