Seize everything.
Prince Charles: Describes food additives as ‘terrifying” - Daily Mail via Kempt
Carpe Omnia
Posts tagged “food”
“ Recently, boring people have suggested that the vinegar was put inside the rocks and superheated to a gas that sundered the rocks, but that misses the point: vinegar was mighty, versatile and vital. ”
food cravings
- Pizza (accomplished); Gumby’s incomplete
- Salsa & Chips
- Cereal
- I thought this list was going to be longer.
Great music, good looking food, beautiful shots of an incredible city, institutional failure, occasional nudity, excellent dialog, real character development, and I’m hooked three episodes in.
“If we’re going to change children’s relationship to food, it’s delicious, nutritious food in the cafeterias. Hands-on experience — you’re looking in cooking and gardening classes — and academic curriculum to tie it all together.” - Ann Cooper
NY Times: A Balance Between the Factory and the Local Farm
Mostly for Graham, but for anyone else who is interested.
1. An overwhelming percentage of people interested in local food are perfectly aware of the issues related to bottled water. This is a total strawman.
2. The suggestion than smaller scale farms will lead to starvation is particularly inaccurate. Instead, it’s probable that large-scale food production is the number one cause of food related deaths in the United States. Focusing abroad, subsidies and food aid serve to undercut and destroy local & self-sufficient agricultural economies; which, ironically, leads to starvation. Going even further, a huge number of the calories produced on factory farms is converted into ethanol or animal feed. Cattle, in particular, convert only 10% of the calories they ingest into the meat, milk, etc… that some of us eat. So for all that ‘efficiency’ a huge amount is wasted post-production (so that, it would seem, they become far less efficient than local farms).
Furthermore, agricultural studies are increasingly showing that small scale farms can produce a comparable quantity of food at a much higher degree of quality without the same subsidizes or infrastructure. Imagine how much better off we would be if we invested in small and medium farms. This point is really why I dislike the article. It would seem to discourage investment and involvement in local and sustainable projects.
3. Urban farming is increasingly efficient, but for me the point really isn’t efficiency. These sorts of personal farms are about connecting to the land and community in a fundamental way; a connection which is often destroyed or minimized by the very nature of urban environments.
4. People should be able to eat whatever they want, whenever they want, and from wherever they want. As long as they are willing to pay the real costs: in particular those of the product, fuel, labor, soil degradation, and water. All of which are subsidized by future generations, illegal immigration, and particularly by modern governments directly.
