Yet, as industrialization advanced, many people became distanced from the labor that sustains life. Supermarkets replaced gardens, and urban migration further fractured our understanding of where food comes from. As novelist Wendell Berry argues in ‘The Unsettling of America’ (1977), this detachment can lead to ecological neglect, spiritual emptiness, and a sense of alienation, echoing Gandhi’s warning that losing touch with the soil is a loss of self-awareness. [...]
