Critical and conscious eating is the practice of engaging with one’s food throughout the process that brings it to and through one’s body; from the nutritional value of the diet of the cow whose meat one eats to the physical sensation of digestion, conscious eating examines the relationship between that which is eaten and that which is felt. It is about experiencing agency over one’s physical health through the decisions one makes concerning food. For the purposes of this ILC, conscious eating also incorporates the consumption of herbs used for healing into one’s diet preventatively rather than through supplements or other means after the fact.