We all want to eat food with good taste and nutrition. Yet in our global economy, with most of our food coming from 'elsewhere' and arriving on the supermarket shelf, how can we actually know whether the food will taste good or be good for us? The reality is that even for the discerning customer, there is no straightforward way based on the appearance of the food to determine whether these qualities are present. In recent years, scientific research and intuitive experience have been rapidly converging around the reality that much of the food available to people today contains less nutritional value than similar foods 50 years ago. Modern horticultural practices that promote volume (i.e increased water content) over quality (i.e. nutritional content) and meeting supermarket criteria of appearance, uniformity and shelf life have resulted in a steady and significant decline in the variety and nutritional value in food available to us. To counter this trend our modern 'health' industry has produced a huge collection of complicated diet programmes and supplement regimes which provide a good challenge to keep up but often do little to provide the basic nutrition we need. The alternative to complexity is simplicity, and Simply Good Food CSA is designed to provide just that: simple, good food!
The Food Debate
Articles
Food & Soil Quality = Environmental care = Healthy Thinking Businesses and Communities.
EcoDynamics is an agricultural and horticultural enterprise guidance service created by Frank van Steensel to assist producers in their search towards genuine profitable production systems.
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50 Million Farmers
Richard Heinberg makes the case for many small farms feeding their local populations.
“…. the way people get their food is the most reliable determinant of virtually all other social characteristics. That’s why we classify societies as hunter-gatherer, horticultural, fishing, animal herding, agricultural, industrial, and so on. Thus, as we build a different food system, we will inevitably be building a new kind of culture, certainly very different from industrial urbanism but probably also from what preceded it. As always before in human history, we will make it up as we go along, in response to necessity and opportunity.”
Juliet Schor
Juliet Schor, Professor of sociology at Boston College has a plan for humanity to buy less and live more. Chris Laidlaw of National Radio interviews Juliet about her book “Plenitude”.
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Climate Skeptics
This sort of says it all and as they say a picture is worth a thousand words and in this case a cartoon is worth a million.
President’s Cancer Panel Back Organics
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GM Food… Feeding the Hungry or Population Control?
Hamsters fed genetically modified (GM) foods produce grandchildren that are more »
unable to produce fourth generation offspring. Genetically modified foods
will feed the hungry, but you could also call it population control.
Technically, the final result would be an end to world hunger. They didn’t
lie.
Farmers Cope With Roundup – Resistant Weeds
Published in the New York Times, May 3, 2010
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Board
Broccoli Issues
Increased Science Funding, An Opportunity for Clean and Green NZ
Growing Slow Money
A link send in by CSA member Helen Dew. This seems to explain it all and uses only twenty words!
Dirty Movie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8_dN5YWnyc&feature=player_embedded
A link to a new movie on Dirt.
Soils Hold the Climate key
Soils hold the climate key:
Earth Food Inc | Thursday 7th May 2010
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