05.21.08

The challenges of feeding Freedom-Haters

Posted in Food, Politics at 5:36 pm by Administrator

Denver caterers gearing up for the FHer convention are trying to provide locally grown, organic, non-fried and reasonably priced eats, but something in that equation is gonna have to give.

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  1. Mr. Dings said,

    May 23, 2008 at 2:32 am

    That is, if there’s any food left by August. For either convention:

    http://www.amazon.com/End-Food-Paul-Roberts/dp/0618606238/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1211509227&sr=8-1

    Paul Roberts, best-selling author of The End of Oil, turns his attention to the modern food economy and finds that the system entrusted to meet our most basic needs is failing dramatically. In this carefully researched, vividly recounted narrative, Roberts lays out the stark economic realities beneath modern food—and shows how our system for making, marketing, and moving what we eat is growing less and less compatible with the billions of consumers that system was built to serve.

    At the heart of The End of Food is a grim paradox: the rise of large-scale, hyper-efficient industrialized food production, though it generates more food more cheaply than at any time in history, has reached a point of dangerously diminishing returns. Our high-volume factory systems are creating new risks for food-borne illness—from E. coli to avian flu. Our high-yield crops and livestock generate grain, vegetables and meat of declining nutritional quality. Overproduction is so routine that nearly one billion people are now overweight or obese worldwide—and yet those extra calories are still so unevenly distributed that the same number of people—one billion, roughly one in every seven of us—can’t get enough to eat.

  2. Bentnotesmanhisself said,

    May 23, 2008 at 1:36 pm

    Ah, yes, that uneven distribution problem. Time to tell Robert Mugabe, the generals in Myanmar, the warlords in Somalia and the Marxists in South America that they’re not being helpful at all.

  3. Mr. Dings said,

    May 23, 2008 at 5:17 pm

    It goes a lot deeper than that. But, yes, there is uneven distribution. No? And we are fast heading towards a food scarcity crisis here in America as well. It might even begin to affect your own personal pie hole. A fact, when there is plenty. Of course the Marxests are not being helpful at all. Gonna call the author a commie now?

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