permaculture

[Scott Pittman <pci@permaculture-inst.org>]

I can't praise Gary Nabhan's book "Coming Home to Eat" enough.  He spent 
one year eating only food grown within a fifty mile radius of his home and 
kept a journal of this experience.  It is a very thoughtful and 
enlightening book on food gathering in the Sonoran Desert.

Scott Pittman

At 03:29 PM 6/10/03 -0400, you wrote:
> > From: treaclemine@intranet.org
>
> > It might then have to be a personal decision as to whether
> > the relative harm (to the environment) of transporting staple vegan
> > foods to a population is outweighted by the relative harm (to people,
> > animals and the environment) of using animal foods.
>
> It might be possible to get some idea of how ugly this cwould look like by
> examining the situation today among peoples in the Sonoran desert or
> Australian outback, or in the high Arctic.
>
> I think there is a vast under-representation of "environmental" (which word
> has always bugged me) benefits to using animal foods (and I use "animal" in
> the broadest sense)
>
> Certainly ANY distance transport of staples harms all; "environment", (as in
> deforestation to build sailing ships, even!) the nutrition of the crown of
> creation (ME!) and all the (charismatic 4 legged megafauna) animals that get
> in the way of the roads.
>
> Y'all excuse me, I gotta drive to the store and get some bananas, avocados
> and peanut butter.
>
> -Rick