{"id":30837,"date":"2018-02-11T14:00:35","date_gmt":"2018-02-11T19:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=30837"},"modified":"2018-02-11T14:01:14","modified_gmt":"2018-02-11T19:01:14","slug":"clean-food-if-you-want-to-save-the-world-get-over-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=30837","title":{"rendered":"Clean Food: If You Want to Save the World, Get Over Yourself."},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a0Clean Food: If You Want to Save the World, Get Over Yourself.<\/a><\/canvas><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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From Salt Bae, via\u00a0Facebook<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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I\u2019m a permaculture farmer. My goal is to develop natural ecosystems that produce food. My dream is a world with ready access to a diet that nourishes the body of the consumer, provides a living for the producer, and leaves the Earth joyfully habitable.<\/p>\n

I share that dream with a lot of people who call themselves permaculturalists, natural farmers, plantsmen, or foodies. I fear, however, that this doughty lot of green thumbs and stock-folk and food advocates is succumbing to tribalism; forgetting that saving the world means saving all of the people in it; even the ones that love cheap burgers and Coke. We\u2019re digging foxholes and making monsters out of people who don\u2019t agree with us, or who don\u2019t understand, or who do understand but are powerless to act.<\/p>\n

Take this quote by Dr. Daphne Miller\u200a\u2014\u200aauthor of one of my favorite books<\/a> on the links between farming and health\u200a\u2014\u200aat the end of her interview with Slow Money Journal<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cAmericans are going to fall into two camps when all is said and done: People who buy cheap goods, regardless of quality, versus people who are willing and able to pay for things that are made with integrity. We are seeing the limits of the \u201cbuying cheap crap\u201d approach.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As much as I admire Dr. Miller, this is among the more judgmental things I\u2019ve read outside of scripture. Among the implications:<\/p>\n