Hungry? What should you eat? Food: every day we get to choose. Food fads, eating disorders and neurotic anxieties rule the day when it comes to decisions around eating. So many promises and so many lies: heart healthy, cage free, organic microwaveable tv dinners, or twinkies? Experts and corporate liars shout out from every billboard and commercial, telling us how and what to eat. Artificial foods surround us along with deceptions, emotional blackmail, unpronounceable chemicals and an endless array of molecular permutations. And it can feel so overwhelming: cheap food, organic food, fast food, local food, or processed food? We try to make ecological choices, health choices, economic and political choices. What we need is a space where the bigger picture of origins and consequences can emerge. The simple truth is, you are what you eat. A more complex truth is that what you eat is inseparable from how its grown and how it reaches your table. Like so much of modern life, the landscape of food standardization seems inevitable and unavoidable. But what we eat has changed more in the past 40 years than in the last 40,000, and industrial agribusiness is responsible for much of the changes. Where does our food come from? How did we get here? Where can we go from here?

In The Omnivore's Dilemna, Michael Pollen says, "Eating industrially requires a heroic act of not knowing." Well, what if we did know? Would we change? Vox Feminista is betting on it.

The new Vox Feminista show, The Last Supper To Go explores industrial food processing from the field to the factory, as well as the promise and reality of hi- tech food, organic food, local food, community gardening, farming, and the true cost of eating in the 21st century. Vox directs your gaze past the pervasive mechanized whir to look with care and consideration at the origins of our food. Always in good taste, Vox considers eating, and the many by-products of the military industrial food chain that holds us tightly in it's grip. The good news is that we're not forced to buy any of it. It is possible to feed people without sickening or deceiving them. Choosing what to eat is not the same as ending the war, fighting imperialism, or stopping global warming, but it encompasses all these issues of peace and justice that Vox regularly examines. Renew your sense of place and your sense of taste this spring and enjoy Westward Magazine's Masterminds of the Year: Vox Feminista.

Vox Feminista is Oak Chezar, Raven, Nancy Norton, Andrea Gibson, Michele Arrieta, Libby and Joy Boston.