02/05/2022
SOME EYE-OPENING STATEMENTS FROM A RECENT ARTICLE FROM THE ORGANIC CONSUMERS ASSOCIATION:
An “unavoidable problem is that the majority of people are economically stressed and time-constrained, and/or lacking in cooking skills. Consumers routinely “cut corners” by purchasing cheaper, highly-processed, non-organic food or by eating out (or ordering home delivery) in fast food chains, or conventional restaurants. 60% of the diet of Americans is composed of highly-processed food, laced with excess sugar, bad fats (high in Omega-6, low in Omega-3), pesticides, synthetic ingredients, preservatives, GMOs, and toxic vegetable oils.”
“Exacerbating this crisis, governments take billions of dollars of our tax dollars every year and subsidize corporate agribusiness…”
”corrupt politicians (from both parties) allow these same corporations to cause trillions of dollars in damage to our health and the environment and destabilize the climate, creating a situation where the “true costs of food” are concealed.”
“the U.S. and most governments around the world are subsidizing agriculture that is factory farmed, chemical, GMO, and energy-intensive, routinely prioritizing agricultural commodities and exports, rather than promoting and subsidizing healthy organic food for local, regional, and national markets…”
“Despite all obstacles, there are thousands and thousands of US farmers and ranchers, and millions more across the globe, who are already farming and ranching utilizing organic and regenerative practices.”
SOLUTIONS
“we must continue to educate consumers, farmers, and policy-makers regarding the obvious, life-or-death benefits of organic and regenerative food, farming, and land use.”
“We need politicians to listen to consumers and rural communities, stop subsidizing degenerative practices, and implement comprehensive policy changes.”
“we must also acknowledge that most farmers, especially small farmers, are struggling just to survive”
https://www.organicconsumers.org/blog/funding-regeneration-revolution?utm_medium=email&utm_source=engagingnetworks&utm_campaign=OB+743+Saturday&utm_content=OB+743+Saturday
“We need to move beyond government inertia and corruption, corporate greenwashing, and climate profiteering, but we must also begin to attract and redirect … hundreds of millions, and eventually trillions of dollars from degenerative investments and capital holdings into regenerative practices.”
As we have repeatedly emphasized over the past decade, we cannot hope to solve the climate, human health, environmental, immigration, financial, and rural economic crisis without organic and regenerative food, farming, and land use becoming the norm (along with alternative energy, conservation, and....
