Perhaps planting fruit trees and/or
>eating the grains we are cultivating to feed animals would reduce
>ecological damage, but I am not sure it is the most urgent or useful
>thing to do.
What is the most urgent thing to do?
For me getting responsible for ones food choice ,by producing it , is the
most urgent thing to do .I plant fruits trees and berries and exchange
vegetables and meats with other producers.
Letting the few farmers producing the food for the rest of the population is
a dangerous thing to do . It lead to what we are getting ( an impoverished
environement and an impoverished "intimate relationship" to it).
Let 's create more bio- diversity and exchanges (rather
than those limited channels that commercial distribution allow)
Jean-claude
I have good beef still to exchange.
>
> -As I suggested, the climate and soil in some countries (like France
>or the US) is favorable enough to feed the entire population with
>meat, fruits and vegetables, and in addition eliminate hunger in one
>or several African countries. Despite the fact that agriculture
>employs only a few % of the population, the EEC has to impose quotas
>because of overproduction. Prices are constantly dropping. Can you
>imagine that the wholesale price of pork is about $0.90/kg in France?
>But of course, most of the food in excess is not sent to
>Africa. Instead, African people are, either working like slaves for
>delocalized industries, or unemployed and starving in slums, or
>working in mines extracting some raw material that will be sold at low
>prices to industrialized countries, or struggling to cultivate a few
>acres of dry land. Tell them to become vegetarian, and they'll laugh
>at you, because either they have no money to buy food at all (whether
>meat or vegetables), or are anyway almost vegetarian because they only
>cultivate cereals (and are malnourished as a result: protein and
>vitamin A deficies, etc). In addition, we should keep in mind that
>civil wars, natural disasters and population displacement also contribute
>to under- and malnutrition.
>
>--Jean-Louis Tu <[log in to unmask]>
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