Blog 4- Harvesting and Gluttony

I think that hunting is moral with the intention of harvesting food for eating and not just for the game. I can see how hunting can have its issues of being a sport and not for a means of providing food because there is so much food out there. Yet, one can't deny a hunter if they like to know where their food comes from and if by all means that leads to be your own hunter and gather, so be it. I think in that sense there's a greater concern for the environment and a more conscious awareness of how food gets on a plate. I feel that packaging desensitizes people from what really happens to their food. It can be disturbing once they get a glimpse of what goes on and see the extremes of abuse to animals when slaughtering in itself is not pretty in the first place.

After reading about the "lunch" that lasted over 10 hours and over 35 courses, I could not believe that people really put their time, money, and bodies at such stress over food. I can only imagine the preparation of this event and how much food was served that day that could probably feed a starving country or how many squabs and crayfish attended, displayed, and devoured. I guess it serves the guests right to feel so out of it as they continued to their "digestive time" with half the courses to go. Gluttony is not meant to sit well morally or physically.

Good reads:
Bringle, Mary Louise. The God of thinness : gluttony and other weighty matters . Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1992.

Thompson, A.K. Postharvest Technology of Fruit and Vegetables . Harlow: Blackwell Science, 1996.