I'm Krista Tippett, today the ethics of eating with author Barbara King Solver.

In her book Animal Vegetable Miracle, she describes an adventure her family undertook

to spend one year eating primarily what they could grow or raise themselves.

Barbara King Solver turned her life towards questions many of us are asking.

How can my family's daily routines really affect climate change?

What would we need to sacrifice in order to do what is right?

And what might we gain?

I think what surprised me the most is that we didn't really miss anything.

We went into it probably thinking too much about what we weren't not going to be able

to have.

But when we changed our thinking and started every meal with the question, what do we

have?

What's in season?

What do we have plenty of?

It became really a long exercising gratitude.

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I'm Krista Tippett.

This our Barbara King Solver reflects on the longings and lessons of a year she and her

family spent, eating only what they could grow or raise themselves.

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