ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the relationship between food practices at large, environment, and the good life. It explains the relevant notion of environment and its relation to that of the good life. The chapter shows the historically important relationship of food practices to environment and discuss some ways in which, in developed societies at least, this relationship has been perverted, ways in which, therefore, well-being is itself compromised. It also calls for a 'reconnection' with local environments, for halting or reversing the processes. One may safely predict that ecologists, natural scientists, environmental ethicists and so on, when writing on environmental issues. The relationships between human beings and their environments are, naturally, much more complex: factors other than food practices work, structure what matters to men and women. It is worth recalling that there have been peoples, among whom 'work' is itself a food practice, whose environments are scarcely less identifiable with feeding habitats than in the case of wild animals.
