Personal Injury Law

Food producers - speak up

By Dr. Doug Powell

I have a garden.

This is the spinach Amy harvested yesterday. Good crop, although I need to get out there and weed (or convince some students that it's part of a local, natural experiment and they should volunteer; happens all the time).

I don't think it's sustainable to drive 11,000 miles to brag about it. I just like my garden.  And I have an excellent crop of blackberries and raspberries coming in.

I still won't drive 11,000 miles to brag about it.

I was on this panel discussion at Kansas State about a month ago, where we were all told to talk for 6-8 minutes, and of course, the organic person talked scientific bullshit for 40 minutes.

And she drove to the meeting, while I rode my bike.

At what point did organic/natural/local types capture the language of sustainability? Even if they drive 11,000 miles to talk about it? I know lots of farmers who grow lots of decent food (far more than I could) and they are the stewards of sustainability, yet, the critics have captured the language.

Conventional farmers, get your voice out there.

Full post as published by BarfBlog on May 27, 2009 (boomark / email).