"One reason for my gladness about how I relate to food now is that I think it's pretty likely that within my lifetime there will be at least one serious food supply chain collapse, whether that's due to another pandemic, climate crisis, mass migration, war, or some combination. (Kim Stanley Robinson's excellent cli-fi novel The Ministry for the Future has all of this on my mind right now.)"
"I'll know that once I was recovered, I didn't waste this age of abundance by messing about with dieting or fussiness, and I also didn't take any of it for granted, as if humans had some sort of inalienable right to plunder the planet for all it has; I knew the food was precious, I knew I should buy the most fairly and humanely produced things possible, and again, the knowledge matched the actions and the feelings."
Anticipated regret can motivate cherishing food while abundance exists, prompting choices that reflect future scarcity concerns. Eating too little increases food's value in fragile, rigid ways; recovery enables a shift toward flexible, stable appreciation characterized by consistent self-regulation and reduced fear or compulsive curiosity. Hard work of recovery permits straightforward enjoyment of food grounded in matching knowledge, actions, and feelings. Expectation of possible future supply disruptions encourages ethical purchasing of fairly and humanely produced food and fosters gratitude for past abundance. Such gratitude offers psychological comfort during potential future scarcity and supports making sensible, value-aligned decisions now.
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