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Wendell Berry In The Pleasures Of Eating
In The Pleasures of Eating by Wendell Berry, written in 1989 and published in the Center for
Ecoliteracy, we are asked to question the things we do. The main audience of this article is for “City
People,” otherwise known as people who use grocery stores like Walmart or Smiths. Our entire life we have become so accustomed to getting produce and groceries the fastest way we can, and the fastest way we get them is through a grocery store. We very rarely get food from the farm anymore and nobody questions why. We “city people” have become caught up in getting the cheapest food instead of going to the farm and getting the highest quality produce. We are no longer concerned what the food has been through and we are only worried about how easy it

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