UPDATE: Not only will this generous gesture of noblesse oblige allow Alonzo and his new friends from Venezuela an opportunity and invitation to head north of the Merritt to assess homes and Lamborghinis worth revisiting on a moonless night, reader Ct Tempest provides this extra bit of color:
Was BSD being too tough on some community gardeners? Skepticism does seem merited.
From organization's website:
https://thefoodshednetwork.org/mission
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The industrial food system shapes the world we live in. Although food nourishes and fosters life, the system in which it is cultivated is fraught with deeply rooted practices of exploitation, beginning with the enslavement of Africans, the genocide of Indigenous Peoples, and extraction of soil, watersheds, and natural & social ecosystems.
Consequently, this colonized food system is a leading cause of racial inequity, diet related diseases, economic disparities, biodiversity loss, water pollution and depletion, soil erosion and climate change. It is designed to feed corporate profits, instead of the community culture it is meant to nourish and sustain while rural and urban food economies suffer from what has become a transactional exchange rather than transparent exchange, dependent on trusted relationships.
Our social and ecological systems can no longer withstand the industrial systems impact and therefore must be transformed so that people and the earth can thrive.
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