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General => News => Topic started by: pippy on September 01, 2008, 21:59:47

Title: Loved this news item!
Post by: pippy on September 01, 2008, 21:59:47
Has anyone read this?

www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/aug/30/food.gardens

Loved it!  Especially the language.  And he is so right!
Title: Re: Loved this news item!
Post by: betula on September 01, 2008, 22:11:21
He still looks a bit poorly to me.

Yes he talks a lot of sense :)
Title: Re: Loved this news item!
Post by: KathrynH on September 01, 2008, 22:20:55
Here here! he certainly does talk sense, and I particularly agree with him about the misuse of the term organic. Now that you can effectively buy organic junk food, the term "sustainable" does seem to be a better option for healthy and ethical eating even if its not strictly organic.
Title: Re: Loved this news item!
Post by: thifasmom on September 01, 2008, 22:29:03
ditto on whats been said, it pretty much sums up how i think about food production and how the western world consumes it, and as we all know what the western world does the rest follows so it simply becomes a global issue that rightly needs to righted. how to get the big guns to stop thinking how to line their pockets and how to really enrich the world as a whole is the real zillion dollar question :-\
Title: Re: Loved this news item!
Post by: kenkew on September 02, 2008, 15:14:08
http://www.soilassociation.org/web/sacert/sacertweb.nsf/e8c12cf77637ec6c80256a6900374463/d0dceeb65a058e26802573d70083690b!OpenDocument

Some interesting forms here from the organisation Monty is about to head.
Title: Re: Loved this news item!
Post by: caroline7758 on September 02, 2008, 17:48:57
Good to hear that Monty's getting up and running again! I often wonder what became of his project with the probation service.