CUpS Talks Excerpted from the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s, Cooking For Solutions 2010 media conference, Paul Hawken eloquently explains how the price of food is divorced from its true costs, and what this really means for society, at large. This is a central theme that runs through much of the sustainable food movement’s core beliefs, and [...]
Posted in ☕CUpS: Talks | Also tagged CAFO, cheap food, cooking for solutions, corn, department of justice, doj, earl butz, farmers, fast food, food commodities, industrial farming, michael pollan, Monterey Bay Aquarium, raj patel, richard nixon, seafood watch, soybeans, sustainable foods institute, wheat |
Part 2, continuing the conversation with Anna Lappé, the question that arises, what is the proper role for government to play with our food system? Lappé sees an important role for government to play. Without a strong government to represent the interests of the people, narrow private interests prevail, often to the detriment of society. [...]
Posted in ☕Food News | Also tagged anna lappe, climate change, cotton, dan imhoff, farm bill, food safety, food system, politics, soy, washington, wheat |
Cooking Up a Story: Food News Part 2: Raj Patel, author of The Value of Nothing, explains what food sovereignty means, and why people around the world are fighting to have a say in their own food system. This is as much a fight for social and economic justice as it is a fight to [...]
Posted in ☕Food News | Also tagged Environment, food sovereignty, food system, haiti, peasants, raj patel, real democracy, social justice, south florida tomato pickers, stuffed and starved, the value of nothing, via campesina |
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