Eating Richly

More food. We need more food to feed the ever growing demands. We are by many standards of measurement at the tipping point, a critical mass of our planets ability to feed its population. We continue to produce more people than we can efficiently and effectively feed. Thomas Malthus noted this a long while ago. As did the industrial-agricultural complex. At no time in the history of our planet has this dichotomy been more evident and important.

Large transnational corporations like Monsanto, DuPont and others have been investing into biotechnology in such a way that patents have been taken out on indigenous plants which have been used for generations by the local people, without their knowledge or consent. More here:
http://www.globalissues.org/article/191/food-patents-stealing-indigenous-knowledge

This is so pathologically sick at a level so disgusting and so potentially catastrophic that I have to wonder if the slogan for the coming massive third world uprising will be the ultimate irony: Eat the Rich. I am going to leave this topic for a while with this thought/fact: US led corporations exploiting the poor (and the poor planet) by these sinister practices is plain and simple greed, profiteering in a bulling method of gross and myopic meanness. And as we all know: Mean People Suck.

I am investigating something I should have done years ago, buying shares in local organic farming. This is one way I can feel a little better about the global impact of my local action. I wish (I really wish) I had more southern exposure so I could grow something other than 100 foot cedar trees and mushrooms, but that is the fact of my forested abode. It is hard to grow tomatoes in the cool shade of a Northwest summer. Here is the model: http://butlergreenfarms.com/csa-signup/csa.html

Lastly, to pair diet with exercise, however covertly, here is an interview with Dr. David Coppel, a noted sports performance psychologist, whom I am going to see tomorrow night at REI in Seattle. His seven Cs of sports performance are:

Commitment
Control
Concentration
Confidence
Communication
Consistency
Competence

Eat locally produced organic veggies and put the seven C's into play and we might just one day be strong enough to take on these totalitarian agro bastards and hence, keep them from becoming the plait du jour of the starving masses. Malthusian indeed.

Pix: Same cup, different contents.