Way too many of us believe we can't go green because we live in the city, have no land, have a small apartment, etc. etc. So we continue to be slaves of the supermarket.
Killing a chicken was easy but hard. The act of plucking off her feathers, eviscerating her carcass and the moment when a living thing became food, in my hands, right before my eyes, were tremendously profound.
Hayes, author of Radical Homemakers, believes the cause of this shift lies with the acceptance of the idea that American society exists for the betterment of the capitalist corporate economy.