Thought for Food

In the last fifty years, the meteoric rise of agribusiness has wreaked havoc
upon our global food supply. Corporate entities like Monsanto and Cargill
are wiping out agricultural diversity with monoculture crops, bankrupting
small farmers with unsustainable practices, toxifying our waterways with
pesticides and fertilizers, treating animals cruelly, and endangering the
web of life with genetically modified foods.
But a growing movement is striking back and taking action to maintain our
food security in the 21st Century. These “greenhorns” are creating CSAs,
tending rooftop gardens, building aquaponic systems, learning permaculture
principles, starting Transition Towns and eco-villages, urban homesteading,
saving seed varieties, and practicing slow food ethics to ensure
agricultural sustainability. In this Spore, we will, explore and discuss the
alternative food networks cropping up in our local communities, as well the
importance of nutrition in our lives. Spores may want to look at current FDA
dietary recommendations and contrast them with the rising interest in
organic/live foods, ayurvedic diets, superfoods, healing herbs, and more