in which i love food and hate capitalism

(with the omnipresent caveat that there is nowhere capitalism does not piss me off) There is nowhere capitalism is not pissing me off more right now than in food. July-September is my annual season of Personal Projects, in which I pick something in my life that needs an overhaul and overhaul it. Past seasons of Personal Projects have featured home repairs, gardens and chickens, personal finance, and Relearning How to Walk. This year, it's been food. Gotta do something with this garden produce. Also because my annual health exam came back tens across the board, except that I have high cholesterol. My doctor isn't terribly concerned (my ratio is fantastic, apparently), but it's the only health project I have so I'm gonna obsess about it. I started reading about what cholesterol is and how it works, and I fell down a rabbit hole. Several books later: Younger Next Year for Women, by Chris Crowley and Henry S. Lodge, M.D. How Not to Age, by Michael Greger, M.D. The Plant-Based Athlete, by…