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  • From: Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [permaculture] Why the Food Movement is Unstoppable
  • Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2016 20:31:43 -0400

[https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sanet-mg/66fAUy2cbaE]


Dear Friends and Colleagues

Published today (Tuesday, Sept 20th 2016) by* Independent Science News*

*Why the Food Movement is Unstoppable*

By Jonathan Latham, PhD

https://www.independentsciencenews.org/health/why-the-food-movement-
is-unstoppable/

*Synopsis:* The food movement is increasingly a powerful force all over the
globe. This article identifies the key social and political components that
define it and distinguish it from other social movements. These features
include a low barrier to entry and broad social inclusiveness as well as
synergisms between previously disparate strands of social thought, such as
animal welfare and environmentalism. This unification of ideas—and the
coherence of the food movement in general—is explained as the result of its
adoption of a radical philosophy that rejects the major principles of
'enlightenment' thought. This rejection sets the scene for a major clash of
ideas with governments and commerce.

The essence of this philosophy is that the food movement conceives the
proper relations between organisms (including among humans) as being
synergistic rather than adversarial and as being largely mediated through
food (i.e. chemical energy). Importantly, it is no coincidence that a
philosophy which rejects divisiveness, violence, and oppression (and in
fact rejects all ideology) originates from the grassroots. The food
movement therefore conceptualizes our ecological and social and
climate crises as all aspects of a larger piece and from this follow
solutions that are rational and coherent. Since neither governments nor the
traditional alternatives are seen as having much apparently to offer, this
now places the food movement in pole position. Its rapid progress and some
impressive victories are thus early evidence of how opposition to the *status
quo* is coalescing around food.....

Please consider sharing '*Why the Food Movement is Unstoppable'*. Apologies
for cross-posting.
Yours sincerely
Jonathan
Jonathan Latham, PhD
Executive Director
The Bioscience Resource Project
Ithaca, NY 14850 USA

www.independentsciencenews.org
and
www.bioscienceresource.org

jrla...@bioscienceresource.org
Skype: jonathanlatham2
Tel: 1-607-319-0279

“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits
and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic
society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society
constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of
our country.”—Edward Bernays, Propaganda


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Lawrence F. London, Jr.
lfljvenaura@gmail.com
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  • [permaculture] Why the Food Movement is Unstoppable, Lawrence London, 10/02/2016

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