{"id":12515,"date":"2017-04-27t17:56:34","date_gmt":"2017-04-27t17:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dpetrov.2create.studio\/planet\/wordpress\/mending-the-food-mindset-and-americas-food-system\/"},"modified":"2017-04-27t17:56:34","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27t17:56:34","slug":"mending-your-food-mindset-and-americas-food-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.getitdoneaz.com\/story\/mending-your-food-mindset-and-americas-food-system\/","title":{"rendered":"mending the food mindset and america’s food system"},"content":{"rendered":"
by hannah curcio<\/strong><\/p>\n
with a sharp knife to its throat, the chicken that 21-year-old sarah diamond helped raise lay dead.<\/p>\n
kalu yala, the small eco-town where diamond participated in a 10-week long internship, serves meat about once a week. but, that night was starkly different from the rest.<\/p>\n
diamond and her culinary class raised chickens for livestock, killed them, plucked their feathers, butchered them, and then served them to the rest of the interns and kalu yala\u2019s program directors for that night\u2019s dinner. diamond ate the chicken but the experience made her further consider today\u2019s food industry and led her to fully embrace veganism. it also affected her in another, more unexpected way.<\/p>\n
\u201cthe language that we used \u2014 thighs, head, neck, stomach, fat \u2014 it was all the same language we use when talking about our own bodies. and that was eye-opening for me. how can we treat our bodies with respect if we are eating other bodies?\u201d diamond wrote in a reflection on her personal blog called \u201ca spoonful of the universe<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n