Maybe you've noticed recently some people talking sense about food and farming in America.
Nicholas Kristof in the NY Times...
Michael Pollan in his letter to the next Farmer in Chief....
And this from the Organic Consumers Association....
And this.....from Food Democracy Now...
It is good to see this, but it is not getting out through the corporate media...the major television networks get too much money from the industrial farms, and their food monopolies, to start telling the American people just how much their food costs, how much it is killing them, and how our industrial farming policies are ruining the environment.
Food...where it comes from, and how it is grown and distributed, is going to be the next big issue...I think it's on the verge of being a major crisis. Let Obama know...let your state legislators know, and your representatives in Congress know, that you want something done...you want change because our lives depend on it.
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Right on Sweetman!
ReplyDeleteI think the chickens are finally coming to roost for this industrial ag. system. There's no doubt about it. I just hope fuel prices shoot up again! Volatility in the oil market is a real variable when it comes to local food production. For this reason we've got to push city and state government's not only to improve the kind of cars on the market, but to spur local food initiatives (ie. food harvested locally to public institutions).
Food production, processing and distribution--now those are some things government can make more transparent. I like Pollan's idea to have a second calorie log on each food and drink item, this one for the amount of oil calories were spent for yer pop-tart to make its way to yer mouth! Great stuff, really.
I've been thinking of this idea to push the Missoula Foodbank to adopt an urban CSA--they pay the inputs for people within city limits to retrofit their yard into gardenspace. By mid-summer they get a return on their investment--a portion of that garden's produce. What do you think? Wanna get involved?
Also will you post the letter you've written to our state legislature on yer blog?