他们把你的食物拆散，一件一件地加价卖回给你。

他们从牛奶中撇去奶油，然后作为独立产品卖回给你。

他们从肉上切掉肥肉，把瘦肉作为高端产品出售，把肥肉提炼成你买来替代正餐的加工食品的基底。

他们从鸡蛋中取出蛋黄，然后卖给你一盒蛋白，盒子上印着一个运动员的照片。

他们把汤里的骨头煮出来，然后卖给你一包胶原蛋白，包装上印着有人冥想的图片。

他们从面包上拿走黄油，然后卖给你一种从他们用石油溶剂提取的油中乳化的涂抹酱。

他们把盘子里的内脏拿走——你曾祖母珍视的部分——把它磨成宠物食品，然后卖给你一种多维生素，里面含有内脏免费提供的营养的合成复制品。

他们移除的每一件东西，都以更贵且营养更少的形式卖回给你。

你的曾祖母买下一整头动物，一点也不浪费。

你买同样的动物，分成十四包独立包装，以四倍的价格购买，而且你被训练成把这种选择称为自由。

They took your food apart and sold it back to you, piece by piece, at a markup.

They skimmed the cream off the milk and sold it back as a separate product.

They trimmed the fat off the meat, sold the lean as premium, and rendered the fat into the base of the processed food you bought to replace the meal.

They took the yolk out of the egg and sold you a carton of whites with a photograph of an athlete on it.

They boiled the bone out of the stock and sold you a collagen sachet with a picture of someone meditating.

They took the butter off the bread and sold you a spread emulsified from oil they extracted with a petroleum solvent.

They took the offal off the plate, the part your great-grandmother prized, and ground it into pet food, then sold you a multivitamin containing synthetic copies of what the offal gave away for free.

Every single thing they removed, they sold back to you, in a more expensive and less nourishing form.

Your great-grandmother bought a whole animal and wasted none of it.

You buy the same animal, in fourteen separate packets, at four times the price, and you have been trained to call that choice.