Permanently Sustainable...

["Dave at M.O.M."]

From The KCFC Bulletin Board

Someone asked to have this article It’s Not Rocket Science: Land Productivity, Food Rights reduced to some seminal passage or extract.  OK... here's my take on it.

Reading is fundamental for PERMACULTURE, too.
Permanently Sustainable Culture...

Here's the author's own synopsis:

"Hunger is not inevitable. Factory farming is not inevitable. Low-quality, tasteless, contaminated food is not inevitable. Repeated “food scares” are not inevitable. Soaring public health costs are not inevitable. Another and better food system is eminently possible — now, not ten years from now or after some promised, imaginary “scientific breakthrough”. It is possible right now, today — in our own backyard(s)."

"What are we waiting for?"

We are waiting for people to act locally.  Action.  Now.  Feeding ourselves and/or working closely with those who feed us.  Working on global food policy to prevent wholesale population poisoning by BIG AG & BIG OIL.  Protecting farmland and recovering land which *can* be farmed, keeping small-scale growers closer to urban areas.  The best scientific breakthrough we can foment is a community's epiphany - bringing into being a whole people's realization that age-old natural methodologies, balancing our agricultural inputs and outputs, *is* sustainable - a culture based on GROWTH, GROWTH, GROWTH is simply not sustainable.

And I'm off that soapbox...
... and onto another.

If you don't yet know how to ACT on it, come to the Kansas City Food Circle's EAT LOCAL! Expos (two Saturdays in a row, 3/28 & 4/4, 2009)... and learn all about it in 5 hours of hobnobbing with folks who are doing it, have been doing it for years (for all the right reasons), and will keep doing it until we all "get" it.


Dave - WebMinion at Large

Manager - Merriam Organic Market
www.MerriamOrganicMarket.org

"The road to health is paved with good ingestion."

Phone: 913-620-8427