To Read & To Write

Reading the few first pages of “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle” by Barbara Kingsolver feels like a big bop on the head by the blunt end of reality. But, as the story goes on, the pain and then numbness slowly fade away and everything is back to normal. Soon, in admiration of the year long quest one family undertook to remain one-hundred percent conscious of humanity’s food chain, a surge of motivation will take over. Organic, cage-free, free-range, fair trade, seasonal, locally made, USDA approved – all these words are now on many labels you see at the grocery store, the local deli, the yoga studio, at restaurants… and many other places. Are these words so easily understood? Organic means one-hundred percent natural. But how exactly is something one-hundred percent natural? Kingsolver goes through the step-by-step process it takes to get there, for each of those labels. These are certainly labels that should be sought after, as is well-known, but “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle” will help...