Edible Education 101: "The Long Green Revolution" by Raj Patel with Mark Bittman
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- Опубліковано 3 бер 2015
- Raj Patel and Mark Bittman's Edible Education 101 lecture, "The Long Green Revolution" recorded live at the University of California, Berkeley on March 2, 6:30 PM PST.
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He is Lord Maitreya
Students make good targets for special interest groups seeking to brainwash them into accepting their ideas. I am a recent grad in a local college's (corn belt) Restoration Ecology program. I was amazed that the administrator's of the program are pro GMO and corporate agriculture. The professor was continually reminding his students that small farming operations are destined for failure and infer that they will become the thing of the past. This statement, among many others, infuriates me.
You are able to change the system when you are *part of it* on either end of the spectrum. You are either a consumer or a producer. Everything in the middle or around the fringes is making profit from this interaction, period. Don't be tempted to think, they will let themselves be influenced by 'little you' or 'for the good of humanity'. Give me a break. Cold, hard cash, simple.
Let me sketch out my life for example, it's not perfect but i'm getting there. It is entirely based on simplicity. What do i need from the food system? Sustenance. Who is giving that to me? The producer. The producer is me for about 70-80% of what i eat. I mean food. Vegetables, potatoes, beans, squash, corn. Not cookies, icecream, junkfood or anything else in that departement. I live in the smallest possible studio appartement but i rent a piece of land, dead simple. I grow most of my food on an average of an hour a day. On the weekends i just go there and do the bulky stuff. Bring a friend, get twice the stuff done. Feeding them is a great way to keep your friend, by the way. No one way streets.
I give myself 1 day a week in which i can eat whatever i want, on the promise to myself that i think about the implications of this act while eating it. Doesn't feel so great now because i know a great deal about how the foodsystem works. The other 30some % of my food comes from the local food shop, where i know the owner is heavilly involved with permaculture and i know that if i buy that little bottle of cordial, net of fresh potatoes or bag of handmade chocolates for someones birthday, it all comes from local people, paying themselves well, working with organically grown produce and fruits.
I have in the meantime ditched most of the convenience foods. Sure, i love a bottle of coke now and then, who doesn't and I'll have the whatever my friends serve too without crying about it. It is all about balance and growth towards. You can figure this one out for your own life. It's not easy, but amazingly satisfying. Yes, i'm on the lowest budget you can imagine. It is not an excuse. Walk away from this because you can. Learn to bake some bread. Knead in the evening, pop it in the oven while you drink your morning coffee and take it with you.
The revolution starts in the kitchen, not in the desk chair.
Peace, love... all that good stuff.
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