When we were assigned our first readings for Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, I was actually skeptical of the content and thought the reading was going to be boring and tasteless. I often compared some aspects of it to Fast Food Nation and assumed the book would drone on about senseless realities and forces we will never be able to stop. However, I now look back and note how stupid my initial uneducated guess of what the content consisted of was.
This book, thus far, has completely changed my mind set on what to eat and what to look for when I buy groceries from the store. It even gave me chills thinking about how young kids, who are supposedly the brightest children in all of history at this current moment, cannot even grasp the concept of where groceries really come from. I have also been making organic choices at the dining halls during meals. I tend to lean towards the locally-grown fruit now more than the cookies and sweets that were probably processed in some old chemical plant. I am glad that this book is changing my lifestyle and hopefully these changes will stick with me and spread to others.
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