I'm hungry

I'm hungry.

I could quickly go to a restaurant, or order some food...

But... I can't easily know how the food was prepared... Maybe they used those low quality frying pans which release toxic black thingies into the food, maybe they didn't wash well the plates...
I also don't really know what kind of ingredients were used, or where they come from... Low fat milk or fatty milk? Sugar or sweetener? Fresh vegetables or those frozen ones?




Well, I could always cook myself...

But... At the supermarket... Where did the veggies come from, a town nearby or have they traveled half the world using up fossil fuels to reach me? How were they grown, were pesticides used, maybe there was some child labor involved...?
What about the meat, has it come from industrial farming where the animals are genetically modified to produce more meat than their legs can carry and live on darkness walking on poo and corpses?

I'm hungry!

Maybe I should go to a farmer's market I know. But it's quite far and expensive, I've been there already this week, I can't afford to go there every time.

I'm getting hungrier.

There's a family owned restaurant nearby which I trust. They serve huge portions though, I can't eat it all alone and there would be left-overs, and I don't want to throw food away. Maybe bring a doggy bag home...?

I'm hungry, and it seems like this is not gonna change until I either ignore my principles and values or dedicate my whole life to food.

Health, the environment, worker's conditions, animal rights, even distribution... Is the food in my plate respecting all these the way I'd like it to? I have no clue! Confusion, guilt, frustration, anger... All these feelings ruin one of my favorite activities - eating.

I don't want to dedicate my life to food, but I plan to make it a bigger part of my life. I've been cooking more often, I try to buy local ingredients and waste the least I can. My dream is to have a house someday where I can have my own system like the one on the video below, growing my own veggies efficiently. And hopefully, one day I'll live in a city with one of the vertical farms like in the second video... Then one day I'll have my belly full of food and my mind free of guilt.

Soil-less sky farming: rooftop hydroponics on NYC restaurant


Vertical farming