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This one's been percolating for a while so you've been warned.
(music) Food Anarchy
The world's food problems are totally freaking me out. Why do we have so many people without access
to food?
Why are so many people with all kinds of access walking around
malnourished over medicaid? We're zombies.
Did you know that half the vegetables grown in the United States are thrown
away because of consumer expectations
on appearance? What is that? Nobody should have to eat an ugly peach.
Most US consumers belongs to one percent elite group of
world occupants who have the greatest food freedom yet we elect
to stuff our gaping pie holes with every fatty, saturated, sugary
weirdness you can wrap your lips around. It's addictive. Salty.
We're overstuffed but our cell, they still feel hungry.
Mmmmmm. Flavour-esk! Natural food, it just doesn't taste right. Gamey.
Fresh vegetables, they spoil so fast it's just not worth it economically.We feed our kids
dinners with goop we have to squeeze out of aluminum pouches
and then wonder why for the first time in human history a child obesity problem.
Here comes the air plane.
We are now to full generations into the modern convenience food evolution.
It just doesn't feel like it's working our for us. Our whole planet's food
system is a stinking mess. And who do we blame for that? Biotech companies? How about us? Fat, overstuffed,
first-world consuming
humans. There are a lot of us on this planet who are spoiled
rotten food brats. What would happen if you went into your favorite grocery store in the clerk
said
sorry, what you're looking for won't be in season for another three
months. I want to talk to your manager.
Seasons? What do seasons have to do with food? When's the last time you spent your
weekly grocery budget on food that was grown in your state? Food budget....?
Do you have any idea how many jobs we'd lose if people stopped eating crap?
Total. Economic. Collapse. Quick: name five indigenous foods that are in season in
your region
right now. Three? We have been doing a lot of complaining lately about the
government's refusal to put GMO labels
on our processed food. Wanna know how to fix that? Stop buying processed food.
Or keep signing a whole bunch online labeling petitions. That seems to be
working out well.
You know what's beautiful but this country? the fact that we're a corportocracy.
Corporations run our government. That makes things easy. Every single time
we buy something
we're voting! Know what speaks louder than bellyaching? Money! The government refuses
to label stuff? Stop buying that stuff!
Are we allowed to do that? Our elected corporatcrats will do anything it
takes to please their lobbyist overlords and keep their butts in their seats
in a Washington DC. So what do americans and our crappy diets have to do a global hunger?
Uh, everything! We have become walking zombies. We don't even know how to feed ourselves.
No, wait! I've got this. We have this handy-dandy food plate to explain the government's food policy.
So the policy goes like this: the Department of Agriculture says that we
should be eating a diet made up mostly of fruits and vegetables
but year after year it pushing an agriculture policy using our tax dollars to
subsidize corn and soy
to benefit the producers a highly processed foods it says we should stay away
from because it's making us sick.
Chu-ching! We're just food stupid. We have not got the vaguest clue nor do we give a flipping
hoot what a food supply chain looks like. Food supply chain? You mean like the fast
food drive through?
Wouldn't it be totally weird if the weird if the way out of this food problem was for us
to wake up from our zombie stupor and
educate ourselves about what food really is? Just what we need, another fat
American trying to think.
Just up another Twinkie down her pie hole, that aught to shut her brain off for the rest of the day.
What would happen to the whole world if those of us with good choice
started eating like responsible consumers? And made friends with our
local food resources?
What would happen if we learned from our local food communities how food supply
chains really work?
And then we use that lens to look critically at the global model.
Holy mother load we'd have a perspective.
Oh, critical thinking.
It's just possible that the first step to fixing this food problem is just you
and me
figuring out how to feed ourselves. How do you know it's a stupid idea? You haven't even tried it yet.
This isn't about somebody doing something someday, this is about you and
me making a critical food change
right now. This even be a moral issue.
Whoa, whoa, that's totally uncalled for.
Don't you dare. Oh, I dare. This is about
food anarchy.