tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190723521016552384.post8578104772432781852..comments2024-02-12T03:13:58.202-08:00Comments on Tree and Twig Farm Blog: The big pictureLindahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10797959217271161971noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190723521016552384.post-62912335529607056212010-01-11T17:54:44.834-08:002010-01-11T17:54:44.834-08:00Hi Alan, Thanks for your comment. I can't say...Hi Alan, Thanks for your comment. I can't say I totally disagree with you,but I do feel frustrated sometimes that local food seems to be a luxury for the privileged (but as a farmer I am not getting rich),and more of a "look at me" event, while we turn our heads to the fact that many people in the world starve everyday. I agree that we need to help build local food systems in third world countries, but we also need to do something very immediate to save lives today.I think world hunger is just not enough of a priority. How can anything be more important?Lindahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10797959217271161971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190723521016552384.post-44611124459369082392010-01-04T09:00:57.521-08:002010-01-04T09:00:57.521-08:00I have to disagree. Not with your points about our...I have to disagree. Not with your points about our excess, the disproportionate number of have-nots in the world, nor with government's inability to fix anything. I think you are spot on there. But, local food is one of the key to solving the problem. Local food is hard. It requires a totally different approach to food production and to life. It puts things (food, water, waste, energy, life) back into the context of the local resource pool. That pool becomes the limit of life in that area (that's how all of nature works when we don't muck it up.) Discovering ways to live locally and helping the needy of the world do the same is the only way forward. (I could go on here for a while yet, but the comment section on another's blog isn't really the appropriate place...) Would love to discuss it more sometime.Alanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08442419546836689939noreply@blogger.com