Yet if you go to the supermarket and look at food that's produced through industrial agriculture, look at what's happened to the prices. Have they been going down? They've been going up and they will continue to go up. So the choice is either, do we hitch onto a system of agriculture that's doomed and will doom the planet with it, and go along the route of industrial agriculture, or do we want to shift to a kind of system that we know is going to be, in the long run, cheaper, because we'll have a planet left at the end of it? We need to factor that cost in.
We need to realize that these industrial methods of farming have gotten us used to cheap food. The corollary of cheap food is low wages. What we need… - Raj Patel
We need to realize that these industrial methods of farming have gotten us used to cheap food. The corollary of cheap food is low wages. What we need…
- Raj Patel
Far from being a “luxury for the rich,” organic farming may turn out to be a necessity not just for the poor, but for everyone. - Raj Patel
Far from being a “luxury for the rich,” organic farming may turn out to be a necessity not just for the poor, but for everyone.
Generosity makes us happiest. We'll be happier people when we share, not when we impose, but when we learn from one another. Because when I'm connect… - Raj Patel
Generosity makes us happiest. We'll be happier people when we share, not when we impose, but when we learn from one another. Because when I'm connect…
Agricultural sustainability doesn't depend on agritechnology. To believe it does is to put the emphasis on the wrong bit of 'agriculture.' What susta… - Raj Patel
Agricultural sustainability doesn't depend on agritechnology. To believe it does is to put the emphasis on the wrong bit of 'agriculture.' What susta…
For every $1 advertisers spend advertising something healthful like apples, they spend $500 advertising junk food. - Raj Patel
For every $1 advertisers spend advertising something healthful like apples, they spend $500 advertising junk food.
Food sovereignty... is most of all characterized by it’s conversations around how to end hunger and poverty. - Raj Patel
Food sovereignty... is most of all characterized by it’s conversations around how to end hunger and poverty.
The opposite of consumption is not thrift - it is generosity. - Raj Patel
The opposite of consumption is not thrift - it is generosity.
The opposite of consumption isn't thrift. It's generosity. - Raj Patel
The opposite of consumption isn't thrift. It's generosity.
The problem is that we are living now with the consequences of the others people mistake. It would be nice to make our own and learn from them. That … - Raj Patel
The problem is that we are living now with the consequences of the others people mistake. It would be nice to make our own and learn from them. That …
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