April 15th, 2023: Winston says that making 3D meat is disgraceful.
Not everybody likes to eat. Anyways and thankfully, only a few people eat just because they have to, without caring what they put in their mouth. I have met a few: they seem to be at a superior level of awarness and spirituality and they walk 10 cm above the soil.
Food is THE primary need for excellance. Besides basic feeding to keep alive, the food gives us micro-nutrients that constitues antibodys to stay healthy, minerals for our phiysical and mental strength, the capability to “think” – it is the case to say that – in a more “organic” and logical way.
When we are hungry, the first thing that happens to us is that we become also angry.
The language of food is universal: all the human kind share the same basic sensations with food: hunger is equal weakness and angriness.
The language of food becomes more specific depending on the acquired taste of the Country where it happend us to be born.
Eating beef in India is a sin. Not eating beef steak in Tuscany is a sin, as well.
What about eating beef obtained with staminal cells…? What is it? The tentative of control of humanity by controlling our food; the tentative of less pollution on the plannet having less intensive breedings; the tentative of some big companies to make more money with this new activity of the three dimensional printer; the mercy for slaughtered animals; the change of eating needs and perspectives, simply the progress…… what is it?
The few, straight, simple words of a young man – Winston, who came for a cooking class on April 15th with his family – have been enlightening: eating 3D meat is disgraceful. An entire philosophy in a few words. It is a disgrace. The contrary of “grace”.
Now… let me reason – actually wonder and ask – with extending concentric circles.
Is it a “grace” to remain stuck in a millenial way of eating? … The way that has led the Man to be what it is, to the building of civilazation and societies near the water; has led the history in the way we know it? Breeding, cultivations, wars for land (and power), industrialization ….. Was this all wrong ( the greek philosopher Parmenide first, the mathematician Jacques Monod in 1900 would have said “necessary”, that is: “it cannot not be”) ?
Are we building a different humanity? A differently shaped community? A community where the concept of “grace” is another one?
I cannot answer. I am not enough knowledgeable nor I have the crystal sphere. I have no answer.
Instinctively I don’t like the idea of 3D meat. I don’t trust it. I don’t trust the taste. I don’t trust the “builders” of it. I don’t trust the idea of changing the shape of humanity and of the world. I am just afraid, maybe.
I am afraid of a world where Food will stop to be the common language.
We have learned how food and cuisine mean non just “eating anf feeding”. We have learned that food means origin, roots, history, religion, philosopy, nourishment, health, beauty, coordination, cooperation, creation.
We should have to start another common language or….no more languages.
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