The Urban Pantheist

I'm doing it backwards: I'm 3/4 through In Defense Defense of Food, and bought Omnivore's Dilemma yesterday to get to this weekend. I worry what I will find that will blow away whatever lingering denials I have that allow me to buy hamburger or chicken -- as long as it's from Trader Joe's or Whole Foods, so it must be "better" than the usual market, right? Probably not. I can keep bumbling along as long as I don't have too many incontrovertible facts shoved in my face. I KNOW It's best to eat local, organic, free-range, and preferably small farmed, Rabbi-officiated slaughtered not conveyor belt madness. Some days, though, you just want to eat something quick and convenient. My grandmother would start cooking dinner at 3 pm for a 6 pm sit down. Who can do that now? In some ways, the market limits our choice: in other ways, we tell the market what we want: quick, cheap, NOW. Yeh, I know it's not "right." (sigh)