I know it sounds like a bunch of middle class toss, but I find that the best tasting produce does come from buying in season, locally, direct from the producer.
Sounds like something from Masterchef!
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I know it sounds like a bunch of middle class toss, but I find that the best tasting produce does come from buying in season, locally, direct from the producer.
I read somewhere that the average apple/ornage has 1/8 of the nutrients the same item had in our youth?
The Organic Consumers Association cites several other studies with similar findings: A Kushi Institute analysis of nutrient data from 1975 to 1997 found that average calcium levels in 12 fresh vegetables dropped 27 percent; iron levels 37 percent; vitamin A levels 21 percent, and vitamin C levels 30 percent. A similar study of British nutrient data from 1930 to 1980, published in the British Food Journal,found that in 20 vegetables the average calcium content had declined 19 percent; iron 22 percent; and potassium 14 percent. Yet another study concluded that one would have to eat eight oranges today to derive the same amount of Vitamin A as our grandparents would have gotten from one.
On SBS tonight starting at 8.30 pm is a documentary about the dust bowl years in the US farm belt.
http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/dustbowl/
THE DUST BOWL chronicles the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history, in which the frenzied wheat boom of the "Great Plow-Up," followed by a decade-long drought during the 1930s nearly swept away the breadbasket of the nation. Vivid interviews with twenty-six survivors of those hard times, combined with dramatic photographs and seldom seen movie footage, bring to life stories of incredible human suffering and equally incredible human perseverance. It is also a morality tale about our relationship to the land that sustains us—a lesson we ignore at our peril.
I'm interested in the spin that the producers of the show will put on this. Farmers today know that what happened then will most likely never happen again thanks to todays modern farming methods where herbicides have replaced the plough. But will that come out?
See ya's.
It also affected western canada during this time too.
Most people learn through their failures.
The same mistakes may not be made, but I'm sure similar events compounded by natural droughts/floods can have just the same devastating effects.
Peak oil has generated headlines in recent years, but the real threat to our future is peak water. There are substitutes for oil, but not for water. We can produce food without oil, but not without water.
We drink on average four litres of water per day, in one form or another, but the food we eat each day requires 2,000 litres of water to produce, or 500 times as much. Getting enough water to drink is relatively easy, but finding enough to produce the ever-growing quantities of grain the world consumes is another matter.