Human photography essay

Food and Class

Why I don’t eat organic meats:

On eating like a ‘poor’ person

PORK CHOPS by KIM

I only eat cheap and fatty cuts of meat. The cheapest cuts of meat (pork belly, pork loin roast, pork chops, ground beef).

How and what I eat

  1. Canned foods: Canned sauerkraut, canned spinach.
  2. Frozen foods: Frozen kale, frozen collard greens
  3. Cheap cuts of (industrial) meats. Certainly pasture-raised and grass-fed meats is higher in nutrition. But fuck it; I just buy what is cheapest.

Buying foods at the local ‘ghetto’ grocery store for ‘poor’ people.

For example here in the east coast, Cindy and I shop at Stop and Shop (order online via peapod.com). This is supposed to be the “ghetto” grocery store for “poor” people. We don’t shop at Whole Foods.

ERIC KIM

Photographer, blogger, street photography educator, artist-publisher. Human-generated essays from the pavement, the camera, the body, and the real world.