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I live in berlin, people aren't hungry. people here eat super cheap s*** they dont know anything about. mostly not where its from, not really how its made, a lot of times not even what it actually is they are eating. a burger for 99 cents, 500 g of raw pig meat for 1.20€, a kilogram bananas for 79 cents. how is this even possible?
candy made of chemicals is one thing. mass food production and distribution, organized totally unattached to 'what the product actually is' - we are what we eat - has in my opinion perverted the basic understanding of life and being the flashy mammal we are.
this may be a luxurious entry point to the global food problem, but I believe awareness of what we're eating is a key issue for western countries. why in the world is nutrition education not part of basic school like writing and reading? It should be taught in freakinkindergarden.
if people knew more about food individually, a lot of the 'price problems' (EU milk lakes, butter mountains etc.) wouldnt even occur. I'm no expert at all, but I understand a lot of the worlds hunger is caused by the way business is treating food. shipping vast amounts around the world with no recollection whatsoever of what's in the containers: life quality for real people. to say the least and put it nicely.
I would love to eat what grows at the time, in a circle around me of about 100 kilometers. but my joghurt is from a big place in somewhere and has travelled 2,500 km before I picked it up.
I wouldnt kill a cow, but hey a burger is only 99 cents and its right around the corner, ready in a minute.
the sheer terror of how this cheap ass burger (and so most of our food) is even possible should really turn some bellies inside out.
candy made of chemicals is one thing. mass food production and distribution, organized totally unattached to 'what the product actually is' - we are what we eat - has in my opinion perverted the basic understanding of life and being the flashy mammal we are.
this may be a luxurious entry point to the global food problem, but I believe awareness of what we're eating is a key issue for western countries. why in the world is nutrition education not part of basic school like writing and reading? It should be taught in freakinkindergarden.
if people knew more about food individually, a lot of the 'price problems' (EU milk lakes, butter mountains etc.) wouldnt even occur. I'm no expert at all, but I understand a lot of the worlds hunger is caused by the way business is treating food. shipping vast amounts around the world with no recollection whatsoever of what's in the containers: life quality for real people. to say the least and put it nicely.
I would love to eat what grows at the time, in a circle around me of about 100 kilometers. but my joghurt is from a big place in somewhere and has travelled 2,500 km before I picked it up.
I wouldnt kill a cow, but hey a burger is only 99 cents and its right around the corner, ready in a minute.
the sheer terror of how this cheap ass burger (and so most of our food) is even possible should really turn some bellies inside out.
yummy!
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Comment by Jeremy Laird Hogg on April 30, 2010 at 3:27pm
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looking at treatment of animals there, of the popular western eats pigs and chickens have it the worst (freerun chickens is a good move to support), cows have it somewhat better, many get to graze; veal is the terrible exception, and diary cows have it worse than grazing cows although still much better than pigs and chickens.
A good rant on the food education in the USA education system:
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/jamie_oliver.html
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