• Third great separation

  • industrial agricultural revolution

    • Farming was a community affair, by necessity.
    • Nearly everyone in the United States lived on a farm, had lived on a farm, or knew someone who lived on a farm.
    • There was still a sense of connectedness to the land, the earth, through food and farming.
    • But ​“times changed” in rural America.

    • The industrialization of agriculture removed the necessity for community-based farming.

    • Farmers eventually lost their sense of connectedness to

      • their land,
      • to each other and
      • to their communities.
    • Consumers no longer know
      • who produces their food,
      • where it was produced, or
      • how it was produced.
    • What happens to food between the earth and the eater has become largely a mystery.
    • Food for family gatherings and religious holidays are of economic importance to the food industry,
      • but have little social or spiritual significance beyond following cultural traditions.
    • The dependence of humanity on the Earth for food is no less than during the early times of hunting and gathering,
      • but the sense of connectedness between the eater and the Earth has been lost.

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  • Farming was a community affair, by necessity
  • What happens to food between the earth and the eater has become largely a mystery.

Medeiros, Priscila de, Ana Carolina Medeiros, Jade Pisssamiglio Cysne Coimbra, Lucas Emmanuel Teixeira, Carlos José Salgado, José Aparecido da Silva, Norberto Cysne Coimbra, and Renato Leonardo de Freitas. ‘PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL, AND SOCIAL PAIN DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC-RELATED SOCIAL ISOLATION’. Preprint. PsyArXiv, 20 September 2020. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/uvh7s.

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