Across the country, students are protesting the war between Israel and Hamas. Many admit they really don’t know what they are protesting. Others are now probably shocked and surprised they are being arrested.
If only they, and everyone else, was clued in to the coming collapse of the food supply. If only they, and everyone else, recognized that government-supported industrial farming is both a health and environmental catastrophe.
Our health is worse than ever before. Birth rates and longevity is decreasing. We are quickly becoming the world depicted in Children of Men.
There is a growing awareness that we are heading over a cliff. The solutions are not difficult…if we work together.
The documentary Common Ground has shown how people of all backgrounds and beliefs can come together on the same solution. Surprising to some, but don’t we all want the same things? Good health? Long lives? Better future for our children? No Farms, No Food is real thing. So is Bad Farms, Bad Food. Both lead to the same disaster.
In less than a century, the rich topsoil across the Great Plains, and on most other farmlands around the world, has been stripped away. Soil that took millennia to create, gone in a few short decades. Farmers now require millions of tons of fertilizers and chemicals to grow crops and raise animals. The resulting pollution is staggering, the health effects destructive. Coupled with corporate desire to cheapen food and maximize profit, nearly everything we eat is tainted and unhealthy.
There is a solution, and it doesn’t require rocket science. Just basic biology.
Nature’s intricately balanced design of plant and animal life creates a regenerating ecosystem producing topsoil, clean air and water, and healthy food. Farmers and gardeners have known this for generations: Rotate land between crops and animals. No fertilizers and chemicals needed. Old is new.
It’s time to set aside emotionalism and blind activism. We need to see the real enemies aren’t each other, but the corporate and government interests who don’t care what happens to us. It’s time to return to the biological design that allowed humanity to flourish. We can only defy biology for so long, and we are already losing that battle.
This war to save our food supply is one we can, and must, win.
Darrick Dean 