My Sunday Star today has on view a wholly unappetising story by Lisa Kramer titled Consumer demand will lead to lab-made 'clean meat'.
Yummy!
Kramer bobs and weaves through a thicket of issues ranging from food safety to animal welfare, but ultimately seems to have only one over-riding concern; safe returns for investors. Of course that's how virtually all policy is decided these days. Nothing is a good idea until "luminaries" like Richard Branson and Bill Gates put money into it.
We have to call bullshit on that. The last hundred years of the corporatization of the human food supply chain has given us cheap food. It's also given us an obesity crisis and a diabetes epidemic. Big Ag is a nightmare for our ecosystem. Industrial agriculture, no matter how much it enriches investors, impoverishes everyone.
We don't need more corporate control of our food supply.
We need to break free of that corporate control!
Buy beef that was grass-fed in pastures instead of fattened in feedlots.
Source your eggs from small farmers who allow the chickens to run free.
Patronize your local farmers' market (but beware the "farmers" who source their produce at the Oshawa Food Terminal - they're everywhere).
There's a growing enthusiasm for "real food" alternatives today that didn't exist a generation ago. Community supported small-scale farming is on the rise everywhere. A lot of millennials are saying "goodbye Wonderbread, hello artisanal sourdough!"
Here's a great example of what's happening. Riverside Bakery is a community supported bakery in Stirling, Scotland. I use them as an example because I've met some of the folks involved, but similar ventures, be they bakeries or butcher shops or what have you, are popping up everywhere.
And while they may hold little appeal for Branson and Gates and other big investors, they, and not lab-grown food products, are the real future of sustainable agriculture.
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Tuesday, June 6, 2017
An embarrassment of good-news riches
Yes, news headlines have been beyond bleak of late. Nothing but Trump this and terror that no matter where you look.
But I think we've turned a corner. Check out this headline from CBC. Obama wings his way to Canada to offer us some hope!
Not to be outdone, Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland offered up some hope to the whole world. If you've been down in the dumps since Donald dragged The Exceptional Nation into the dumpster, lighten up! According to Freeland, "Canada will step up to lead on world stage."
Take that, Trump!
If that's not enough good news for you, check this out; scientists have discovered that good old Wonderbread could be just as good for you as that artisanal sourdough stuff you've been paying six bucks a loaf for!
And we're not done yet; Here's my favourite; seems that playing video games could actually help your kid succeed in university!
Who knew?!
Wow! I think I could be on the brink of a good-news overdose... gonna have to lie down till my head stops spinning...
But I think we've turned a corner. Check out this headline from CBC. Obama wings his way to Canada to offer us some hope!
Not to be outdone, Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland offered up some hope to the whole world. If you've been down in the dumps since Donald dragged The Exceptional Nation into the dumpster, lighten up! According to Freeland, "Canada will step up to lead on world stage."
Take that, Trump!
If that's not enough good news for you, check this out; scientists have discovered that good old Wonderbread could be just as good for you as that artisanal sourdough stuff you've been paying six bucks a loaf for!
And we're not done yet; Here's my favourite; seems that playing video games could actually help your kid succeed in university!
Who knew?!
Wow! I think I could be on the brink of a good-news overdose... gonna have to lie down till my head stops spinning...
Saturday, June 21, 2014
Breakfast at Wiarton International Airport
Whoever runs the latest iteration of the restaurant at the Wiarton International Airport is really close to a home run.
The Farm Manager talked me into stopping there for breakfast this morning. The eggs (easy over) were excellent.
The home fries were divine. 11/10 on the home fries, folks.
The toast was brown Wonderbread and boring.
The sausages were OK but boring too.
Not that there's anything wrong with "boring" for breakfast.
I'm there for breakfast, not for excitement.
The Wiarton International Airport is in a death spiral of sorts. The feds have been trying to fob it off on the local community, which isn't sure what to do with it.
If I were them, I'd put together a trade mission to Cartagena to see if some Colombian investors might be interested in buying a small-town international airport in Canada.
That little restaurant could be a gold mine!
While we were there a little airplane with the call letters FBZI taxied up and two old dudes came up for breakfast. That "Z" isn't going to fool anybody. The FBI is obviously on the lookout for those Colombian investors already...
The Farm Manager talked me into stopping there for breakfast this morning. The eggs (easy over) were excellent.
The home fries were divine. 11/10 on the home fries, folks.
The toast was brown Wonderbread and boring.
The sausages were OK but boring too.
Not that there's anything wrong with "boring" for breakfast.
I'm there for breakfast, not for excitement.
The Wiarton International Airport is in a death spiral of sorts. The feds have been trying to fob it off on the local community, which isn't sure what to do with it.
If I were them, I'd put together a trade mission to Cartagena to see if some Colombian investors might be interested in buying a small-town international airport in Canada.
That little restaurant could be a gold mine!
While we were there a little airplane with the call letters FBZI taxied up and two old dudes came up for breakfast. That "Z" isn't going to fool anybody. The FBI is obviously on the lookout for those Colombian investors already...
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