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Sometimes, I wish I could go all Henry David Thoreau and live out in the woods with my neckbeard. Unfortunately, I care too much. My version of care requires action, and therefore bars me from exiting the situation and leaving it to everyone else to figure out. The more I learned about food and justice, the more it began to impede upon my ideas and opinions. Much to my dismay, environmental and social issues have forced themselves into my everyday rhetoric and eventually destroyed my quest toward neutrality, tore any remaining indifference to shreds, and loudly masticated through my tendency for apathy with their strong jaws.
As citizens of a place, we have a responsibility to belong to that place: our community. This belonging often involves participation in learning, acting, and teaching. Something that all of us creatures should agree on is that if we want to keep living our lives, we have to keep eating.
We live in a world where many voices are being silenced, while others are being amplified. Farmers are losing their livelihoods as large corporations keep growing profit. The modern agricultural regime, while it is a huge industry that employs 41% of the human race, more than any other occupation, and accounts for 40% of the world’s land area, it is also one of the biggest contributors to climate change.
This excerpt is part of a larger project to explore corporate interest as it is involved in agriculture and what kind of affect this has on individual autonomy and the resulting stratification of our communities and the Earth community as a whole. My project is to argue for a divergent food system that promotes autonomous choice and justice to counter the dominant food system that is currently in place. It is necessary that we understand the current agricultural regime and identify sources of economic injustice that encourage the system to prosper, develop a foundation for the autonomy of both eaters and growers, and finally, introduce an alternate food system that identifies community autonomy and commits to protecting it.
While there may be numerous solutions, civic agriculture - in the form of urban gardening, farmer’s markets, and CSA’s - has the potential to allow communities and ecosystems to thrive. Civic agriculture will allow us to create a cooperative food system, rather than an exploitative food order. It will promote autonomy as community connection serves to fairly distribute and represent food in a context of health and culture. Civic agriculture serves the interests of people, not those of money hungry corporations. By escaping the grasp of the agricultural regime, we can promote justice and mutual understanding. We can create autonomous communities filled with healthy people and healthy ecosystems. We can be free to live fully and to eat pleasurably.
Sometimes, I wish I could go all Henry David Thoreau and live out in the woods with my neckbeard. Unfortunately, I care too much. My version of care requires action, and therefore bars me from exiting the situation and leaving it to everyone else to figure out. The more I learned about food and justice, the more it began to impede upon my ideas and opinions. Much to my dismay, environmental and social issues have forced themselves into my everyday rhetoric and eventually destroyed my quest toward neutrality, tore any remaining indifference to shreds, and loudly masticated through my tendency for apathy with their strong jaws.
As citizens of a place, we have a responsibility to belong to that place: our community. This belonging often involves participation in learning, acting, and teaching. Something that all of us creatures should agree on is that if we want to keep living our lives, we have to keep eating.
We live in a world where many voices are being silenced, while others are being amplified. Farmers are losing their livelihoods as large corporations keep growing profit. The modern agricultural regime, while it is a huge industry that employs 41% of the human race, more than any other occupation, and accounts for 40% of the world’s land area, it is also one of the biggest contributors to climate change.
This excerpt is part of a larger project to explore corporate interest as it is involved in agriculture and what kind of affect this has on individual autonomy and the resulting stratification of our communities and the Earth community as a whole. My project is to argue for a divergent food system that promotes autonomous choice and justice to counter the dominant food system that is currently in place. It is necessary that we understand the current agricultural regime and identify sources of economic injustice that encourage the system to prosper, develop a foundation for the autonomy of both eaters and growers, and finally, introduce an alternate food system that identifies community autonomy and commits to protecting it.
While there may be numerous solutions, civic agriculture - in the form of urban gardening, farmer’s markets, and CSA’s - has the potential to allow communities and ecosystems to thrive. Civic agriculture will allow us to create a cooperative food system, rather than an exploitative food order. It will promote autonomy as community connection serves to fairly distribute and represent food in a context of health and culture. Civic agriculture serves the interests of people, not those of money hungry corporations. By escaping the grasp of the agricultural regime, we can promote justice and mutual understanding. We can create autonomous communities filled with healthy people and healthy ecosystems. We can be free to live fully and to eat pleasurably.
As citizens of a place, we have a responsibility to belong to that place: our community. This belonging often involves participation in learning, acting, and teaching. Something that all of us creatures should agree on is that if we want to keep living our lives, we have to keep eating.
We live in a world where many voices are being silenced, while others are being amplified. Farmers are losing their livelihoods as large corporations keep growing profit. The modern agricultural regime, while it is a huge industry that employs 41% of the human race, more than any other occupation, and accounts for 40% of the world’s land area, it is also one of the biggest contributors to climate change.
This excerpt is part of a larger project to explore corporate interest as it is involved in agriculture and what kind of affect this has on individual autonomy and the resulting stratification of our communities and the Earth community as a whole. My project is to argue for a divergent food system that promotes autonomous choice and justice to counter the dominant food system that is currently in place. It is necessary that we understand the current agricultural regime and identify sources of economic injustice that encourage the system to prosper, develop a foundation for the autonomy of both eaters and growers, and finally, introduce an alternate food system that identifies community autonomy and commits to protecting it.
While there may be numerous solutions, civic agriculture - in the form of urban gardening, farmer’s markets, and CSA’s - has the potential to allow communities and ecosystems to thrive. Civic agriculture will allow us to create a cooperative food system, rather than an exploitative food order. It will promote autonomy as community connection serves to fairly distribute and represent food in a context of health and culture. Civic agriculture serves the interests of people, not those of money hungry corporations. By escaping the grasp of the agricultural regime, we can promote justice and mutual understanding. We can create autonomous communities filled with healthy people and healthy ecosystems. We can be free to live fully and to eat pleasurably.
Sometimes, I wish I could go all Henry David Thoreau and live out in the woods with my neckbeard. Unfortunately, I care too much. My version of care requires action, and therefore bars me from exiting the situation and leaving it to everyone else to figure out. The more I learned about food and justice, the more it began to impede upon my ideas and opinions. Much to my dismay, environmental and social issues have forced themselves into my everyday rhetoric and eventually destroyed my quest toward neutrality, tore any remaining indifference to shreds, and loudly masticated through my tendency for apathy with their strong jaws.
As citizens of a place, we have a responsibility to belong to that place: our community. This belonging often involves participation in learning, acting, and teaching. Something that all of us creatures should agree on is that if we want to keep living our lives, we have to keep eating.
We live in a world where many voices are being silenced, while others are being amplified. Farmers are losing their livelihoods as large corporations keep growing profit. The modern agricultural regime, while it is a huge industry that employs 41% of the human race, more than any other occupation, and accounts for 40% of the world’s land area, it is also one of the biggest contributors to climate change.
This excerpt is part of a larger project to explore corporate interest as it is involved in agriculture and what kind of affect this has on individual autonomy and the resulting stratification of our communities and the Earth community as a whole. My project is to argue for a divergent food system that promotes autonomous choice and justice to counter the dominant food system that is currently in place. It is necessary that we understand the current agricultural regime and identify sources of economic injustice that encourage the system to prosper, develop a foundation for the autonomy of both eaters and growers, and finally, introduce an alternate food system that identifies community autonomy and commits to protecting it.
While there may be numerous solutions, civic agriculture - in the form of urban gardening, farmer’s markets, and CSA’s - has the potential to allow communities and ecosystems to thrive. Civic agriculture will allow us to create a cooperative food system, rather than an exploitative food order. It will promote autonomy as community connection serves to fairly distribute and represent food in a context of health and culture. Civic agriculture serves the interests of people, not those of money hungry corporations. By escaping the grasp of the agricultural regime, we can promote justice and mutual understanding. We can create autonomous communities filled with healthy people and healthy ecosystems. We can be free to live fully and to eat pleasurably.
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Menstrual Equity and Sustainability at St. Mary's College
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Category: Consumption and Waste EcoLeader Projects
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Date Created: 12/16/2020 05:01 PM
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