Thursday, March 20, 2014
Here's an Idea: Thoughts for food
How far must we fear to become elucidated? With our growing knowledge of these issues on food happening in our own local home, we are becoming afraid of our surroundings. What i mean is that we are everyday learning more and more of what is wrong with our food and what we intake, it literally scares us and worries us. We learn what is wrong with the processed, fast food and what is even wrong with the fresh local foods. When i realized i was feed up with this fear and our decreasing heath as a nation i thought maybe Ron Finley is right. Finley inspired me that if we build it will rise. (ha ha) I mean that if we create a better eating environment, then our health will get better. His thought was to make all empty, abandon parking lots or open land into farming land. Small gardens all over California. And why not? He is right. If we have kids volunteer they will eat what they have created. and if we have enough effort we will change everything.All i think of this idea is positive things. Sure it will take work and effort, qualities our nation lacks as a whole but with our focus we can truly benefit. Starting now we can begin to grow enough to support our growing population which is said to be in the near 10 billion by 2050. If we are having issues feeding our people now, it will not get easier as the days continue. So here's a though world: lets grow everything, ourselves and our food.
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Almost every month or so we see on the news how harmful some food is or some infected product that was sold and is getting people sick. Basically the food keeping us alive might end up killing us. Ron Finley's idea to turn empty lots into gardens was a good one and I don't understand why more of these haven't been seen. They are beneficial to everyone they make an empty lot look nicer, give off oxygen, and take up a space that would have been empty with weeds. After watching him give his speech it made me and some of my fellow classmates to have a garden of our own. Just like Wendell Berry's article the pleasures of eating, people with gardens have more pleasure in the food they make because they are using something they grew themselves.
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