“Before we go back to organic agriculture, somebody is going to have to decide what 50 million people we are going to let starve.” Earl Butz, Secretary of Agriculture under the Nixon Administration.
Cooking Up a Story: Food News
Fred Kirschenmann, a long-time leader in the sustainable agriculture movement, Distinguished Fellow [...]
Cooking Up a Story: Food News
Fred Kirschenmann, a long-time leader in the sustainable agriculture movement, Distinguished Fellow at the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, and a third-generation farmer (an organic farmer himself), offers some thoughtful reflections upon the future of agriculture.
Kirschenmann points out that much of what made modern industrial agriculture [...]
Cooking Up a Story: Food News
Fred Kirschenmann steadfastly warns us, conventional agriculture, and its heavy dependence upon fossil fuels, and irrigated water, simply will not continue to offer a viable means for feeding the world. We have been drawing upon nature’s reserves of stored energy (hydrocarbons) and water resources at unsustainable rates, and those [...]
Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System, provides his analysis of recent riots relating to the disastrous rise in global food prices. In this video produced by Democracy Now, Mr. Patel offers his analysis of the recent riots taking place in developing countries most effected by “this [...]
