The problem is that we let special-occasion food become everyday food. That goes for soda and french fries.
It's not food if it arrived through the window of your car.
Food consists not just in piles of chemicals; it also comprises a set of social and ecological relationships, reaching back to the land and outward to other people.
The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.
Without such a thing as fast food, there would be no need for slow food.
For we would no longer need any reminding that however we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of nature, not industry, and what we're eating is never anything more or less than the body of the world.