I'm a little worried.
So I'm a little worried about the world.
The first article is from my favorite environmental website.
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/04/global-food-shortages-spreading.php
The second is MSNBC
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24262084/
Now you know it's bad when mainstream media are actually paying attention.
I've been trying to figure out what I can do.
I've been trying to figure out what steps I can make and feel comfortable with. I can give up beef. Milk is a little harder, but there was a month or so when I did without it before. I can certainly reduce my consumption
I feel sad and worried, and like a princess in a tower in America where the only worry is higher prices, and not running out of food. I mean Ethiopia is always one of the first places to have food problems for many years, but now they are having shortages in Egypt and Japan is out of butter. JAPAN that crazy fabulous place that is a mix of vibrant electronic culture and quiet extremely rural areas. They are out of butter.
We have butter, and milk and eggs. I once had a cow named after one of my nicknames as a little girl, and it makes me sad in a way to turn my back against those who have given us milk, but the people need the corn more. The people need the land for soybeans and wheat and whatever the hell else will grow more than the cows do.
Plus the people need the food more than the cars.
This is a big and complicated problem, but I still believe there is something an individual can do, or that i can do to do my part.
I need to read up on local good sources for food.
I need to figure out if I'm okay with eating chicken because I don't know how I feel about veganism. I need to stop going to dunkin donuts, because it's just damn wasteful, and I need to watch my diet, because I am really lucky, and the mirror of excess has been shown.
I need to think more on this, but tonight I need to sleep too.
The first article is from my favorite environmental website.
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/04/global-food-shortages-spreading.php
The second is MSNBC
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24262084/
Now you know it's bad when mainstream media are actually paying attention.
I've been trying to figure out what I can do.
I've been trying to figure out what steps I can make and feel comfortable with. I can give up beef. Milk is a little harder, but there was a month or so when I did without it before. I can certainly reduce my consumption
I feel sad and worried, and like a princess in a tower in America where the only worry is higher prices, and not running out of food. I mean Ethiopia is always one of the first places to have food problems for many years, but now they are having shortages in Egypt and Japan is out of butter. JAPAN that crazy fabulous place that is a mix of vibrant electronic culture and quiet extremely rural areas. They are out of butter.
We have butter, and milk and eggs. I once had a cow named after one of my nicknames as a little girl, and it makes me sad in a way to turn my back against those who have given us milk, but the people need the corn more. The people need the land for soybeans and wheat and whatever the hell else will grow more than the cows do.
Plus the people need the food more than the cars.
This is a big and complicated problem, but I still believe there is something an individual can do, or that i can do to do my part.
I need to read up on local good sources for food.
I need to figure out if I'm okay with eating chicken because I don't know how I feel about veganism. I need to stop going to dunkin donuts, because it's just damn wasteful, and I need to watch my diet, because I am really lucky, and the mirror of excess has been shown.
I need to think more on this, but tonight I need to sleep too.