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I am guilty of not paying attention to where my food comes from. I remember that when I moved to Portland I sort of noticed when food was marked ‘local’. Sometimes. If the print was big enough. Not that I avoided buying produce from Chile, of course. It just influence whatever subcategory of produce I picked out. Not apples vs. oranges, merely what kind of apple.
This is what I began to consider after reading the report. We are all guilty of failing to pay attention to all manner of factors. Right now, the expression on the collective face of the peoples of the industrialized world must be that of a teenager who invites all his friends over to use the vacuum cleaner as a beer bong, and then forgets that Mom and Dad will be back from the lecture on nonlinear systems at ten o’clock sharp.
However: Screw guilt. Our ape brains have evolved to be susceptible to just this kind of threat: faceless, morally neutral, relatively distant in time, and gradual. There’s no use moping. Superman doesn’t whine about Kryptonite.
