Damned good quote.

The real bottleneck to the revival of native, locally grown foods is a cultural - or more precisely, a spiritual - dilemma. If we no longer believe that the earth is sacred, or that we are blessed by the bounty around us, or that we have a caretaking responsibility given to us by the Creator - Yahweh, Earth Maker, Gaia, Tata Dios, Cave Bear, Raven, or whatever you care to call him or her - then it does not really matter to most folks how much ecological and cultural damage is done by the way we eat. It does not matter whether we ever participate in the butchering of our meat, the harvesting and grinding of our grain, the foraging and drying of our herbs. Until we stop craving to be somewhere else and someone else other than animals whose very cells are constituted from the place on earth we love the most, then there is little reason to care about the fate of native foods, family farms, or healthy landscapes and communites.

Gary Paul Nabhan, from 'Coming Home to Eat'

I got this from The Last Morsel, at http://www.thelastmorsel.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=main