Sharon asks…
A sustainable future in relation to food?
Discuss values and associated behaviours in relation to a sustainable future, in relation to sustainable food.
That is the question I am being asked to write an essay on? I am really unsure about what I can include and anything would help!
So this is what is required of me: Has written or spoken on each value, explaining how that value supports a sustainable future, and provides in depth examples from the readings and interviews of the behaviours that arise as a consequence of one value and thenon how a value supports a sustainable future, with detailed examples from the readings and interview of the behaviours that arise as a consequence. The discussion includes justifying decisions, making judgements, stating opinions, considering implications, projecting future impacts, evaluating options, comparing and contrasting, analysing or suggesting alternatives, where appropriate.
Any links or your own thoughts would be very useful!
The Expert answers:
You need to read your class notes or topics that you have been given and do some research yourself. Go to a library and ask them some questions.
Food sustainability is very important as we are dealing with a warming climate and lack of resources like water. Another issue is food waste and that a lot of very wealthy countries have a lot of food waste which is terrible when you consider some countries still don’t have clean drinking water. Now that we are a global economy we need to look at how the food is distributed and used more effectively so that countries and people who need it can have access to it. Obesity is another problem as people in the west are so well feed and so unfit that we literally eat ourselves to death
Sandra asks…
What are some unsustainable food companies?
All of the food companies/brands that I research are going sustainable so I am having a hard time finding ones that aren’t yet.
The Expert answers:
Most of the big meat packers.
Monsanto/Syngenta with their GMO garbage. ( a biggger threat than most of the pollution concerns you have)
Archer Daniels Midland,
Tyson
Kraft Foods,
“sustainable” has varied meanings. To bankers it means one thing. To organic producers and consumers it means another. I am sure some of the companies you researched are in my list of unsustainable companies. Those companies are usually paying lip service hoping to tell the consumer what they want to hear, while the company continues it’s unsustainable practices.
The large companies know exactly what the public is demanding of them, and those companies are not willing to adopt orgainc practices or biodynamic practices and procedures- instead they muddy the water. Monsanto has spent billions in trying to dilute the organic standards, which is why the USDA standards for “organic” fall short of those of Oregon Tilth- one of the best resources for consumers and growers of organic foods. Http://tilth.org
Standard practices of the meat packing industry is to feed the refuse from the processing plants back to the animals in thier feed. This leads to disease, and can make BSE/Mad Cow virulent and pervasisve. While the industry calls it sustainable- it really isn’t. Words mean things- and they mean different things to different people- which is why so much propaganda gets loaded into textbooks.
With plants- GMO is NOT sustainable- be it your orange colored cauliflower to your round up ready crops- they came from test tubes, not natural selection so it is a gamble as to what diseases they will succumb to, what food allergies they will trigger, what diseases they will propagate. They rely on great amounts of chemicals.when you focus on Round up ready crops- and that overspraying regimen pollutes groundwater and surface waters- it was what the French documentary “The World According to Monsanto” is all about- and you will never see this broadcast in the USA.
The reality is exactly the opposite of what you have found so far.
Jenny asks…
In my APES class we are doing a Sustainable City Design Project. What city should we choose?
Apparently choosing the location is a critical part of this project and it should be researched in-depth. This city has to provide everything you can think of for a population of 50,000 and have an industry as well as housing, food, water, transportation, jobs, an education system, waste management, etc. My teacher said it would be stupid to choose a place like Miami or Buffalo because of the climates. So, what would be a wise place to choose? We were thinking California. Maybe Malibu or a little more north like Santa Barbara. Any suggestions?
The Expert answers:
Try
Arcosanti, Arizona
Treasure Island, San Francisco: is another project that aims to create a small eco city.
Coyote Springs Nevada largest planned city in the United States.
Babcock Ranch Florida a proposed solar-powered city.
Douglass Ranch in Buckeye Arizona
Mesa del Sol in Albuquerque,New Mexico
Sonoma Mountain Village in Rohnert Park, California*
Robert asks…
I need to do a project, and the topic is sustainable development. I need it urgently.?
The questions that have to be answered are:
How can sustainable development be applied to the following:
1)agriculture and food production
2)industry
3)energy production and use
4)transport
5)tourism
Pls answer ASAP, cos its deadline is approaching!!!! Any resources would be extremely useful. 🙂
Please give me sources. Thanks 🙂
The Expert answers:
Sustainable development is basically about restricting our economy and enforcing “politically correct” values upon the people in all areas of life. It comes directly from the United Nations’ Agenda 21, which you can read online (but is too long for you to read tonight).
Agriculture and food production is planned to be moved closer to the cities to reduce travel distances. Agriculture will also effectively be “collectivised”, i.e. Government regulated and perhaps owned (effectively both the same thing). Energy use will be reduced by means of heavy taxes and regulations and it’s method of production will be switched to far less efficient and more expensive (“renewable”) ones such as wind and solar.
Industry will be heavily regulated in many ways and will be transformed into “public-private partnerships”, which will mean that government-favoured businesses will get the jobs and work in acordance with government contracts. Private travel will mostly (if not all) be public transport (buses and trains) and bicycle and walking. Car use will be penalised and roads and facilities will be built to favour the other forms of transport.
Later on, please read through the following websites. They are warning us what “sustainable development” really is, You will not be told at school.
Http://www.newswithviews.com/Chapman/michael.htm
http://www.f21sc.net/site/downloads/chapman_sustainable_tyranny.pdf
http://www.newswithviews.com/Shaw/michael2.htm
http://www.magic-city-news.com/textfiles/Transforming_America.pdf
http://www.freedom21santacruz.net/site/downloads/sd-guide-web.pdf
Michael asks…
If there was an ecologically sustainable vacation resort, would you go?
Assume the cost is the same as going on a normal vacation.
Ecologically sustainable in this case refers to the resort using green energy sources, environmentally friendly building materials and designs, and serving naturally grown foods. It would still have many, if not all, of the comforts of a standard hotel experience.
The Expert answers:
Yes I sure would ,I have a strong interest in protecting the environment so I would be interested to see how the resort does that as well as just having my holiday.
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