My letter to the editors had an effect, I was invited to interviews with the local papers, stingy as they are regarding the use of my pictures, one offered me a "food coupon" for restaurants valued at 12 euro for the use of several of my great dumpsterphotos, and the joints don't even have organic food on the menu, but hey I wanted to get the info out and not bicker about peanuts, which by the way i don't like anyway!
So off I went on my bike the 18 kms into town on this dreary day
to do my bidding for a world with less waste and to raise awareness regarding sustainable food production, and why it is the only thing that makes sense, which unfortunately is quite the mental exercise for so many people, and so even repeated explanations why organic is better, didn't stick with the reporters, and so i will state one of the best reasons once more here as i wrote to one of the local reporters after reviewing a draft text:
"det var en ganska viktig sak jag kom på, som vi pratade ganska mycket om, som du inte skrev någonting om.
det var biten om priser av ekologiskt mat jämförd med vanlig giftmat eller genförändrad mat
jag försökte forklara en sammanhang. Att alla kostnader som uppstår sammhället med miljöforgiftning, drickvattenförurensning, folkhälsan, som hela samhället får betala för, mens i ekoproduktion betala kunden vid kassan medvetet mera för att han/hon tycker det är en bra investition i deras barn framtid, eller bara för egen eller djurens/naturens skuld. Samma kund får sen betala ännu mera i framtida höyda skatter som krävs för att återställer miljön..."
Well i just explained how the poison food most people seem to love, is cheaper than organics in the store, because the damage done by these destructive agricultural practices are only later paid for by the whole human society, their and our children's future and health, not to speak of aall the other earthlings, we share the planet with.
If all the costs caused were actually accounted for, that cheap poison and genetically modified garbage, would be probably triple the cost of organic food, if that's even enough!
Ironically even the customer, who out of their idealism buys organic at these unfairly higher prices, will help later with his/her taxes to defray the costs of the coming environmental degradation and the human societies health crisis, with more and more extremely costly chronic diseases coming down on us.....
Reporter Tone Nordling and Jacob Saurén (Ålandstidningen) after the interview receiving a practical demo of the merits of dumpsterdiving at City Livs.
Made my and her day to find these tulips among many other rather edible things, like cauliflower heads, i guess the theme of the day was flowers!
Here is a real good documentary for anyone who wants to get a visual of what I am talking about. I my mind the best film on organic farming I have seen to date, very heartwarming story of a real life farmer and his way to becoming an eco farmer.
Awesome Awesome film, must see
"the real dirt on farmer john"
You can buy it there, or better yet surely find a torrent site, download it and surprise John with some real money in an old fashioned paper envelope for a virtual disc only to be found on your harddrive if you wish....
That cuts back on the plastic avalanche of billions of plastic discs, shipping them around the globe, and keeps the energy flowing.
The future is open source, and so bright we all oughta wear shades!
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