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Prior to eating a meal I occasionally give thanks a la grace style to someone in that chain.

Random things like thanking the person who fitted the alternator belt on the tractor that ploughed the soil the carrots were grown in.

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This is why food waste killllls me. A field was sown, carrots grown, weeds picked, carrot harvested, inspected, washed, shipped, stored, sold, aaaand... it rots in my fridge and goes straight into the trash can off to the landfill. Ugh.

Or my favorite: life forms that have spent millions of years decomposing and transforming into oil are drilled out of the ground, refined, hauled somewhere, turned into plastic, hauled somewhere else to be formed into a spoon shape, hauled halfway across the globe to reach your table/store/restaurant... just to be thrown out without being used.

Have you read "Religion for Atheists", by any chance?

I haven't. Sounds like the kind of thing that might appeal to me, will look it up.

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