How to Be a Conscious Eater

there, the ways it expands our minds and palates, even sub-

consciously, all of it—can be a powerful vehicle for change.

In recent years, we’ve seen this potential realized by female

chefs and restaurant workers helping propel the #MeToo

movement forward and speaking up for women’s rights more

broadly, as well as fast food workers leading the nation-

wide charge for a $15 minimum wage. In my mind, climate

change is the issue whose time has come to be mainstreamed

through food.

If enough people gradually and cumulatively vote with not

just their forks but their grocery baskets, we may very well

be headed for a revolution. One in which gastronomic citizenship

becomes the norm. A day when you no longer need a guide

to conscious eating—because it will be so second nature, we’ll

just call it... eating.

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