A learning journey of a city-slicker dreaming to live off of the land as much as possible, trying my hand at growing as much food as possible on a regular city plot. City Farm in the making with lots of pictures!
Friday, May 16, 2008
The True Cost of Food Movie!
It's animated AND edumacational! From the Good People of the Sierra Club National Sustainable Consumption Committee.
Here's the secret: the foods in the markets, our wonderful "Standard American Diet" (SAD) is made of ingredients that are NOT nutritious, but rather, it is heavy with fats and processed sugars, empty on vital nutrients and trace minerals, and created in mind to have long shelf life . Another thing is that Americans are VERY sedentary. If everyone who has a yard went out and dug holes for compost, tilled soil for the crops and pruned their fruit trees instead of letting their gardeners mow their lawn for them, people wouldn't be so fat!
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I'm confused. America is having a higher food cost = food shortage problem. Also, America is having an obesity epidemic.
Here's the secret: the foods in the markets, our wonderful "Standard American Diet" (SAD) is made of ingredients that are NOT nutritious, but rather, it is heavy with fats and processed sugars, empty on vital nutrients and trace minerals, and created in mind to have long shelf life .
Another thing is that Americans are VERY sedentary. If everyone who has a yard went out and dug holes for compost, tilled soil for the crops and pruned their fruit trees instead of letting their gardeners mow their lawn for them, people wouldn't be so fat!
great video, I requested a copy and permission to put it on my backyard farming blog. Thanks!
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