Veruca-Salt-Psychosis

Full post found here by the lovely Meg Fee

"i mention all of this because the way in which we grow and eat food is a tremendous allegory for our current state of affairs.

we (the collective cultural we) are looking for answers in the wrong place. we want immediate results. we want to press the big-red-easy button and reap our rewards. i think collectively we’re all straining under a sort of veruca-salt-psychosis: i want it and i want it now.
and this isn’t dictating just the manner in which we try to lose weight–it governs what we eat and when. we eat raspberries flown from halfway across the world because they’re not in season where we live, but we still want them. we exploit the lives of countless animals and try to expedite the process in which they age so as to have more and have it now (and we do this by pumping them full of antibiotics and hormones which we then ingest second hand). i want and i want it now is now our cultural refrain. and it’s stripping the earth of its precious resources at a startling rate.
we are a selfish species.
we buy more and spend more and waste more and we do it in the name of capitalism.


we need to eat more simply and live more simply. we need to go back to the dinner table. sit around it with our family (and accept that many people now have different working definitions of this word). break bread. take vegetables form the garden. and connect in a way that has nothing to do with facebook and foursquare and any of the other multitudinous applications that serve a purpose i’m no longer sure of."