Lebensmittel

January 12, 2022
1 min
Lebensmittel

Lebensmittel is the German word for food & drink.

It means, translated literally, Life's Means, or Life's Resources.

There's something in this ancient word that seems to get at what we advanced citizens of the twenty first century, with our industrial farming and food substitutes and over-salted, over-sugared meals seem to have neglected: that you are what you eat. What we put inside our body is not merely fuel for an engine, but the essence of who we are, and how we exist day to day.

Changing this relationship to this essential resource is key to the change in our relationship to the non-human world, and ultimately, to ourselves.

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