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Re: [Livingontheland] Michael Pollan: We Are Headed Toward a Breakdown in Our Food System
- From: Pete Vukovich <pvukovic1@yahoo.com>
- To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Michael Pollan: We Are Headed Toward a Breakdown in Our Food System
- Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 00:40:54 -0700 (PDT)
His notion of whether food is due for a reformation probably says more about his celebrity and finding his niche culturally. I think a reformation is something people choose , whats going to happen with food will happen out of necessity at some point. Sooner should people decide survival is more interesting than convenience. I also read Berry differently. For me Berry appears less focused with how one consumes, and more on how one produces both farming and non farming related. Its hard not to keep remembering quotes about people who in any given day 'no longer touch anything they've made with their own hands'. I think that's harder so see in a place like Berkeley which like every other city is consumed with too much noise and pulled in too many different directions ( I lived there for around 10 years a long time ago) to know itself at all. No shortage of folks who think a city is this (politically) or that (socially), but these hairs are something urban culture can split which I've never had the senses to comprehend. To me cities are just airports without runways, and Berkeley really wasn't an exception beyond having a transition element named after it. Probably not many berkeley locals realize that before Alice and Micheal made their mark, there were plenty of cambodian and vietnamese truck patch farmers 'organically' farming 1rst street just east of the racetrack and the old garbage dump (still there in the early 80's) with bok-choy by the barrel full, until they were displaced by upscale restaraunts and breweries which probably bear the 'organic' seal somewhere. Had they written books and had Presidents eaten at their stands Berkeley might have been a different type of city. Berkeley farms is still a supermarket label, trouble is in spite of mike and alice's celebrity, no one can seem to tell me where the berkeley farms even were.... Hope its not too far off topic. --- On Sun, 7/5/09, Tradingpost <tradingpost@lobo.net> wrote:
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- Re: [Livingontheland] Michael Pollan: We Are Headed Toward a Breakdown in Our Food System, Pete Vukovich, 07/06/2009
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