Pay attention to your food
February 04, 2023
By Susan Pelican
from James Corbett (check him out!):via Organic Consumers Association...
"As consumers of heavily processed, chemically treated, GMO-infested gunk, we in the modern, developed world have "solved" the problem of hunger that plagued our forebears since time immemorial by handing our food sovereignty over to a handful of corporate conglomerates.
The result of this handover has been the creation of a factory farming system in which genetically engineered crops are doused in glyphosate and livestock are herded into tiny pens where they live their entire lives in fetid squalor, pumped up with antibiotics and growth hormones until they are slaughtered and shipped off to the supermarkets and fast food chains....
But as bad as things may be, they're about to get even worse. As crisis after crisis disrupts the food supply, the "solution" to these problems has already been prepared. New technologies are coming online that threaten to upend our understanding of food altogether. Technologies that could, ultimately, begin altering the human species itself.”
Many of these are rolling in from Universities, including UC Davis (see the Sac Business Journal edition on new startups in the Sacramento Region) and include technological "advances" like Davis' Gotham Greens, (sold at Nugget in Davis)... -a high rise greenhouse which purports to save water (hydroponic) and land (??) AND is in PARTNERSHIP WITH UC DAVIS).
Know about this and invest your $ and your health in farmers markets, organic produce, eggs, milk, meat and bread.
A powerful truth comment, thank you - well said.
Other Universities in America have proven that 1 acre of land using regenerative organic farming can produce not only 10 times the amount of produce than 1 acre of corporate ag., the produce will also be much more nutritious and beautiful.
UCD AG sold out to Monsanto - now scrubbed from the internet, to do genetic seed manipulations - putting pesticide preventative (inputs) into the actual seed. This has not been fully vetted with the public or those who are supposed to watch out for consumers. How can such a glaringly obvious broken corporate agriculture system, especially in the big Corporate Farms in California's huge valley - bringing in water from far away to do the corporate way- poisoning hundreds of migrant farm workers with their toxic pesticides. None of the horrible things that are happening to animals and abuse of natural resources are necessary - CHANGE THE NARRATIVE and FAST. There is a global Regenerative Agriculture movement that can end this heinous corporate chemical-laden approach. How can a major university not hold to known ancient wisdoms such as: First Do No Harm?
4 words that the corporate mind set ignores. REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE CAN SAVE THE WORLD FROM CLIMATE CHANGE because when done organically, it becomes a massive carbon pull down. It is actually the best way for fast carbon sequestration! India has kicked out the corporate approach and is now saving seeds, a bank of unaltered seeds. If only we could do this here. If only UCD would be less corporate minded, If only we could live in harmony with nature. Gandhi said Nature has enough for man's need, but not enough for man's greed. (Look to those who made a LOT OF MONEY on pesticides....)
Posted by: Susan Rainier | February 04, 2023 at 02:29 PM
I am a big fan of small-scale and organic food. And long skeptical, and aware, of UCDs dirty ag ties. Was wondering about the swipe at Gotham, though. Are they not low water, organic, low-land, consistent environment, no pesticides? I thought I read about this a leap forward in ways to feed the world with little water, low land-use and not toxic? Am I wrong about this?
Posted by: Alan C. Miller | February 04, 2023 at 04:50 PM
They are hydroponic-- so can use water over and over. But many in the organic movement think that to be TRULY organic you need to enrich the soil-- not possble when there is no soil...They are NOT organic, but say they do not use harmful pesticides... what chemicals DO they use?? They have a controlled environment, so
they can provide greens all year... Your local grower has greens all year too-- but
some grow in the heat and others do well in winder... Seasonal eating is part of
being part of nature...
These folks are NOT dirt farmers: they are financed by Big Money. As my (now deceased husband used to say: "Beware of those projects that pander to greed and convenience."
Posted by: susan pelican | February 04, 2023 at 10:54 PM