Yes. When you make that interior contact with the food and honor its
struggle and then thank if for having gone through all that just to end
up sustaining your body, you open up that kernel of negative energy --
you soften its shell, so to speak, and begin its release and
transformation. And when you follow this by a blessing of the food
(however you might conceive of such a thing), you are creating a
positive force which counter-balances the negative one. This positive
energy enters into the food at the level at which that negative residue
exists, penetrates its softened shell and, if it is strong enough,
neutralizes it.