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Looking for a Better Food Future for Our Kids

11-year-old Birke Baehr talks about his disgust with our present industrial food system.

As they say, out of the mouths of babes….

And talking about children, Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move initiative looks interesting. She’s working with faith-based and other community organisations to eliminate childhood obesity, food deserts and our junk food culture within a decade. The latest aspect of the campaign is of particular interest — including a determination to, amongst other things:

  • Host 10,000 community gardens or farmers markets at congregations or community organizations
  • Develop 2,600 school gardens in 2011 that will yield over 650,000 pounds of fresh produce, which will be provided to local families in need
  • Get one million young people involved in community gardening.

Now that’s the kind of leadership we can use.

8 Comments

  1. The reality is positive change for a better world is good where ever it comes from and the natural systems of the earth have no prejudice or concerns in this regard.

    Permaculture design is based in solutions and orientated towards positivism.

    Survival of the most positively diverse interactive species will prevail and the choice is ours.

  2. Yes, JBob – we should ask Michelle to quit this vision and leave it to privatised business – a la Big Agri. I’m sure they’d get it done.

  3. I wonder what miss Obama thinks about the food modernization and safety act s510 that just passed the senate last week.

  4. Dave – I’ve seen all the ‘gardens will be banned’ sensational posts, but I’m having trouble validating it (hence my not posting about it).

    It’s actually hard to find all the allegations they’re talking about in the S510 bill. And the bill keeps changing (content, and even the name of the bill). It’s hard to separate the hype from reality on this, and at the moment I don’t have a week to spend on verifying these things.

    See this:

    https://www.snopes.com/politics/business/organic.asp

    If someone whose spent a lot of time on this can point us at the pertinent parts of the bill that would do what some are saying it will do, I’m all ears. If not, it might be a case of it being ‘truth’ because “it’s on the internet!”

  5. I think one of the worst obstacles for the implementation of permaculture is the elite’s disguise of getting their hands dirty. Yesterday I read in the Newspapers there are now 75000 Swedish youths working in the Norwegian service industry, because Norwegian youths don’t want these kind of “dirty” jobs. This is because the elites tell them so, that this kind of jobs has no value. How can we then expect them to think it’s cool to work in a vegetable garden? I think Michelle’s example is of immense importance!

  6. Once Michelle Obama renounces the forcible redistibution of wealth from us to her, and starts a garden not built on the backs of slave labor, then maybe her example would be praiseworthy.

    Hitler loved dogs; doesn’t mean he’d be a good choice for Animal Shelter spokesman.

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