Comments on: On Farmers, Activists and Scary Food Issues http://blog.eatwellguide.org/2009/10/on-farmers-activists-and-scary-food-issues/ Find Good Food with the Eat Well Guide. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:16:49 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Lauren http://blog.eatwellguide.org/2009/10/on-farmers-activists-and-scary-food-issues/comment-page-1/#comment-3013 Lauren Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:16:05 +0000 http://blog.eatwellguide.org/?p=1262#comment-3013 I grow grass-fed beef for individuals (and one restaurant from time to time) on a true family farm. I will not ever increase my herd but let it die off from attrition. Cows and beef are not sustainble; they may have been a good idea before the Great Plains were plowed under but weekly hamburgers for the masses is not a good idea for planet Earth! I don't overstock and don't promote my beef but get found on the Eatwild.com web site. My operation is more sustainable than most. Now that I'm milking my own goats, I believe goats (cabrito burgers?) to be much more sustainable for a number of reasons. Thank you for your web site and getting the message out. I grow grass-fed beef for individuals (and one restaurant from time to time) on a true family farm. I will not ever increase my herd but let it die off from attrition. Cows and beef are not sustainble; they may have been a good idea before the Great Plains were plowed under but weekly hamburgers for the masses is not a good idea for planet Earth!

I don’t overstock and don’t promote my beef but get found on the Eatwild.com web site. My operation is more sustainable than most.

Now that I’m milking my own goats, I believe goats (cabrito burgers?) to be much more sustainable for a number of reasons.

Thank you for your web site and getting the message out.

]]> By: Babette Hogan http://blog.eatwellguide.org/2009/10/on-farmers-activists-and-scary-food-issues/comment-page-1/#comment-3002 Babette Hogan Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:58:43 +0000 http://blog.eatwellguide.org/?p=1262#comment-3002 I want some thinkers to put their heads together on this debate: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth thinker that spurred much of the Gaia movement, has turned a corner on his feelings about GMO's. Is there ANY practical application that, because of our own abundant grain supply that some of these new GMOs are actually useful. Brand points to Africa and its drought stricken areas and high rates of starvation and sees that some scientifically modified crops are NOT a problem, but a solution. Is there an inbetween? I'm not an advocate. I listened to Brands words with doubt, but believe that he has had a perspective that many of us don't quite grasp because we still happen to live in the land of plenty. Would appreciate a conversation about this conflict. I want some thinkers to put their heads together on this debate:

Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth thinker that spurred much of the Gaia movement, has turned a corner on his feelings about GMO’s.

Is there ANY practical application that, because of our own abundant grain supply that some of these new GMOs are actually useful.

Brand points to Africa and its drought stricken areas and high rates of starvation and sees that some scientifically modified crops are NOT a problem, but a solution.

Is there an inbetween? I’m not an advocate. I listened to Brands words with doubt, but believe that he has had a perspective that many of us don’t quite grasp because we still happen to live in the land of plenty.

Would appreciate a conversation about this conflict.

]]> By: Terra http://blog.eatwellguide.org/2009/10/on-farmers-activists-and-scary-food-issues/comment-page-1/#comment-2997 Terra Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:41:30 +0000 http://blog.eatwellguide.org/?p=1262#comment-2997 This was a great read. Thanks. Sometimes it boggles my mind how a farmer, who grows, real, whole food can feel so threatened by the advocacy of Michael Pollan, someone who is on the forefront of the advocacy of eating, pure food. It is quite the corporate dilemma Americans have gotten into. Hopefully with time, education and movement, things will begin to change. Thanks for all your hard work and for getting the information out there. :) This was a great read. Thanks. Sometimes it boggles my mind how a farmer, who grows, real, whole food can feel so threatened by the advocacy of Michael Pollan, someone who is on the forefront of the advocacy of eating, pure food. It is quite the corporate dilemma Americans have gotten into. Hopefully with time, education and movement, things will begin to change.

Thanks for all your hard work and for getting the information out there. :)

]]> By: Mike Smith http://blog.eatwellguide.org/2009/10/on-farmers-activists-and-scary-food-issues/comment-page-1/#comment-2996 Mike Smith Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:03:55 +0000 http://blog.eatwellguide.org/?p=1262#comment-2996 "If industrial agriculture is, let us pretend, an aggressively armed Persian nation, then the PollanNation is France. I get it." More at http://bit.ly/2QSCWz “If industrial agriculture is, let us pretend, an aggressively armed Persian nation, then the PollanNation is France. I get it.”
More at http://bit.ly/2QSCWz

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