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Re: [Livingontheland] If Indigenous Food Systems Are Healthy, Why Are Some Indigenous People So Unhealthy?
- From: "John D'hondt" <dhondt@eircom.net>
- To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] If Indigenous Food Systems Are Healthy, Why Are Some Indigenous People So Unhealthy?
- Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 20:29:58 -0000
And health is not just a question of food. If you have survived genocide and new diseases specially introduced to keep your tribe down and they then drive you on a reservation in a desert where they just abandoned open cast uranium mining and then they start fracking next to your only good well... it might drive you to drink or worse.
I am sure that in earlier days it was possible to live a really good life by hunting-gathering. I read a thesis once that stated that at the end of the last ice age in America a native could feed his extended family with just 8 hours of work per week.
John
I guess this question is a matter of perspective. In the overall
picture, what's less healthy: random, diverse groups of people barely
surviving and reproducing in a place, or consuming the stability of the
atmosphere and polluting the environment until everyone has cancer?
Dan C.
WI, USA
On 12/11/2013 11:00 AM, livingontheland-request@lists.ibiblio.org wrote:
If Indigenous Food Systems Are Healthy, Why Are Some
Indigenous People So Unhealthy?
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