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Thanks to my roommate\u2019s luck with winning tickets, we attended a great film series event the other night showing the documentary, Eating Alabama<\/a>. \u00a0The premise around the film was to capture all the trials and tribulations that the filmmaker and his wife had while trying to eating only food found in their home state of Alabama for one year.\u00a0 This concept is nothing new to the food movement in fact people have been doing it for a while now, take Barbara Kingsolver<\/a> and her record in, \u201cAnimal, Vegetable, Miracle<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0 However something in particular moved me that night.\u00a0 Granted it could have been the glass of wine with dinner but the film, despite its comical nature, brought tears to my eyes.<\/p>\n

Our pastoral view of society is gone and now it\u2019s a game to try to eat like our not too distant relatives? And not just any game. \u00a0A very hard, tedious, well planned one.\u00a0 The disconnect we have from the very land we stand on and the air we breathe is immense.\u00a0 A quote from Norman Wirzba<\/a>, sums it up perfectly: \u201cOnce we have forgotten or denied our biological kinship with the earth and its inhabitants it is hardly an accident that so much of human spiritual life is premised on an escape from rather than an affirmation of life.\u201d It is an overwhelming sad thought to think about how far removed we are from the consequences of our thoughtless daily actions.\u00a0 I often find myself thinking how the heck did we get here?<\/p>\n

We live in a world where convenience and speed are top priority which makes for little time for an investigation of what\u2019s on the dinner plate.\u00a0 Cheap, quick, and uninformed seem to be the new American values.\u00a0 Sometimes it\u2019s hard to not get angry and overwhelmed with the situation.\u00a0 Once you remove that na\u00efve veil and are exposed to the vast amount of problems this world holds it\u2019s hard to not carry that burden personally.\u00a0 Sometimes it feels as though I\u2019m a pack mule carrying load for a month long trip.<\/p>\n

The true personal trick\u00a0I’ve\u00a0found to help get by is finding a glimpse of hope to help you battle through it.\u00a0 It\u2019s about changing your approach from unrealistically being the knight in shining armor battling every issue to taking it one day at a time.\u00a0 It\u2019s not about one person changing the world instead it\u2019s about empowering individuals so collectively we can make a difference.\u00a0 It\u2019s treating everyone, stated by the wonderful NC3<\/a>, as \u201ccreative, resourceful, and whole.\u201d\u00a0 The world is a hard and an overwhelming place to take on your own but with the help of others it helps ease that burden and it\u2019s one you can collectively share.\u00a0 It\u2019s a refreshing thought to know that I\u2019m part of a team full of energizing, inspiring people who are the utmost of \u201ccreative, resourceful, and whole\u201d and that I am thankful for.\u00a0 Knowing you\u00a0aren’t\u00a0going at it alone can be the refresher you need to keep chiseling away one day, one mind, one experience at a time.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n\"Fields_Whitney\n

Whitney is currently serving as a PHP VISTA in Indianapolis combating food justice issues one day at a time. \u00a0Originally from Kentucky, she day dreams of getting back to her roots, diggin’ up some dirt, and living the so called simple life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thanks to my roommate\u2019s luck with winning tickets, we attended a great film series event the other night showing the documentary, Eating Alabama. \u00a0The premise around the film was to capture all the trials and tribulations that the filmmaker and his wife had while trying to eating only food found in their home state of… Read more »<\/a>","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,321],"tags":[255,113,34,256,257,258],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-young-adults","tag-consumer-decisions","tag-farming","tag-food","tag-group-support","tag-one-day-at-a-time","tag-the-simple-life"],"yoast_head":"\nThe Informed Eating Game - Food and Faith<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/centernet.pcusa.org\/food-faith\/2013\/04\/29\/informed-eating-game\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Informed Eating Game\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Thanks to my roommate\u2019s luck with winning tickets, we attended a great film series event the other night showing the documentary, Eating Alabama. \u00a0The premise around the film was to capture all the trials and tribulations that the filmmaker and his wife had while trying to eating only food found in their home state of... 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