Local Food - By and For the People

Peak Moment 161: What if the food system benefited local producers, nourished nearby people, and built a stronger community? Krishna Singh Khalsa of Eugene, Oregon wants to turn the food system on its head. He wants it to be run by, and for the benefit of, ordinary people - not corporate profit. He's exploring models of local cooperative, entreprenuerial organizations where people provide the labor, share and hire resources, caretake the land, use all of nature's abundance, support farmers and food producers, distribute food so that no one goes hungry, and build strong social bonds. Empower people, not profits!

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News & Politics

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• agriculture
• local food
• society

[impalapez]

Please have a look at the Book " The Emperor Wears No Clothes" Hemp, Cannibus, is the cradle of civilization...I don't smoke it, I don't consume alcohol. I believe it should ALL be decriminalized. Destroying the Black Market economy.

People cannot exercise self control while they are malnourished....

[PersianPaladin]

We do not OWN ourselves. We ARE ourselves :-)

[mikepousti]

COOL!!!

[Engineer245]

The state and federal govenment are shutting down Farmers Markets everywhere. When we were in Arkansas they shut the one in Cotter down. It was our favority. The FDA is a criminal organization that is forcing the common citizens to be slaves to their system of corporate farms.

[pdhahan]

SINGH IS KING

[Glomerol]

I thought it was cute where Krishna at one point seemed to lose his train of thought and Janaia picked up. :)

[Glomerol]

@wreckerpecker:

I once came across the 'innovation' argument for proprietary systems, but I'm unsure that even that's valid-- depending, to be charitable, on some systemic/economic/cultural/etc­. conditions.

[Glomerol]

..."The Tragedy of The Private"... (Well, take a look around you...)

There appear to be good arguments that seem to suggest that the so-called 'Tragedy of The Commons' may not necessarily fulfil that prophecy due to some flawed assumptions and preconditions in its argument...

"Modern industrial civilization has developed within a certain system of convenient myths... that private vices yield public benefits... a society that is based on this principle will destroy itself in time"

-- N. Chomsky

[Glomerol]

Krishna cursorily mentioned somethings about land-ownership, which I think is the crux of any meaningful social change, because I suspect that where probably any kind of elite or privileged land-ownership is allowed, the system is doomed from the start. Ostensibly, a large reason why we are in the predicament we're in is the result of this dynamic of limited private interests' control over land/resources and from that, labour.

[peakmoment]

Mike Ruppert suggests the drug money (including CIA connections with the Mafia) is keeping the U.S. economy afloat. The "drug war" was merely a cover for this activity...and control of drugs were a major reason for Viet Nam and now Afghanistan.

[cohnkrad]

@mamacass1972, I agree with you, but hemp and marijuana is only slang-names for the plant Cannabis sativa/indica/ruderalis

The thing with industrial hemp is low thc, it's still the same plant, only a other strain. Some strains is good for industry(low thc) other for medicine(high thc). Both is highly valued for it's purposes. Peace friend :)