Elizabeth Yorke

Regenerative Agriculture, regenerates communities and improves the rural economy. 

I understand that the dates are just precautionary. And I need to understand the ingredient or the product to know if I can use it. It empowers my sensory skills in a sense that I trust that I understand through sight, smell and taste and feel that the product is okay or not for consumption. It gives us a "culinary confidence" as @anusha likes to say, and empowers us to make better food decisions by understanding our ingredient.

Hours of Labour: we not  be able to feel understand seeds or water or land but we know the feeling of work on the body. It is easier to empathise with. Once we understand the hardships of agriculture we can go on to empathise with nature. Our cultures and traditional stories could contribute to this mindfulness. Like, the "Story of the Rice"-- where a woman hears crying sounds from her field and she realises it was from rice grains, unharvested on the ground. "don't waste your food or the rice will cry" Mothers tell their children. I guess a certain sense of empathy is developed for the grains of rice, that are crying because they are "wasted" and an understanding of where food comes from..i.e. the land. 

Price heavily manipulates our consumption decisions. Meat and Dairy receiving large subsidies makes it more cheap and affordable to consume in large amounts.