Seminal Watercooler - It All Comes Down to Food

Seminal Watercooler – It All Comes Down to Food
By: Jim Moss Sunday November 22, 2009 7:00 pm	Tweet

Here’s Michael Pollan connecting the dots between three of our most pressing problems. Interesting food for thought.

What’s on your mind tonight?

4 Comments Recommend

Jason Rosenbaum November 22nd, 2009 at 7:03 pm «

Wondering if we’re going to see a jobs bill sometime soon…
Ruth Calvo November 23rd, 2009 at 1:54 am «

Unsustainable food system seems a bit drastic to me, but then, I have enough land to grow my own veggies and know many who have that, and do.

I’m eager for the new version of CCC camps, an institution that taught a lot of otherwise unemployed city dwellers how to grow their own food, and many arts of living that they had not learned in an urban environment.

kindGSL November 23rd, 2009 at 8:40 am «

It gets scarier if you think of things like big droughts. Remember the dust bowl? Or the acidification of the ocean, no more sea food. We will be raising our fish in ponds, that dry up …

Ruth Calvo November 23rd, 2009 at 9:15 am «

Actually, I lived in N.TX. in the 50′s and do remember the Dust Bowl then, grit in everything. That taught us to keep rain barrels around, and the ranchers dug stock ponds; the extreme drought down south drained off all those helpers this past summer, though. It can get scary.

Seminal Watercooler – It All Comes Down to Food