[Garden] Anti-local food talk: Oct 22

[Paul Nijjar]

CIGI is putting on an interesting talk on October 22 at 7pm entitled
"Homegrown or Flown-In: Is Local Food Always Best?". I figure some of
you might be interested in attending. 

http://www.cigionline.org/cigi/.calendar?event={7aa48dee-2605-42ea-809d-d2d9b1b35eb8}

Here is the summary:

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"We all agree, don't we?  Eating local food is best.  We should cut
out buying all that fruit and vegetables flown across the world to our
tables.

Except well, don't we also think that we should help Africa with
"trade not aid"?  Spot the contradiction?  Fred Pearce went in search
of the people who grew green beans flown to his home town from Kenya
in East Africa. And he came back convinced that, sometimes, we should
be buying the imported stuff. That kind of talk doesn't make Fred a
lot of friends among his fellow-greens. But that's the strength of his
new book: Confessions of an Eco  Sinner. He travelled the world to
find out where his stuff came from and isn't afraid to take on the
sacred cows of the green movement. This is ethical shopping for
grown-ups."


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By the end of this talk I expect to be fully convinced, ashamed and
despondant.  Maybe you can be too. 

- Paul



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