Summary Of The Pleasures Of Eating By Wendell Berry

In his article, “The Pleasures of Eating”, Wendell Berry discusses the situation of how humans don’t tend to pay attention to what we eat. His main reason for this article is to give a better explanation to the question “What can city people do?”, which many ask after his lectures on the decline of agriculture and farming. Every time he has answered “eat responsibly,” and struggles to find an explanation as to what he means by this. However, he felt like there could have been more to say and adopts a much stronger tone to provide a better attempt at explaining. He begins with stating the proposition of eating as an agricultural act, that most people now view food as an agricultural product. He also makes a point of us being “passive consumers”,