The Future of Food

I may be late to the game (can this possibly be true after 30+ years of bona fide hippie thinking, vegitarian living, yogi being, health food eating, organic shopping, health food teaching, consciousness raising living ?? ) but after viewing and agonizing over Food Inc. and the electrifying revelations that sparked my consciousness about the nature of the food industry in America, I realized that I'm no farmer.  I hadn't the slightest idea what our basic food producing industry faces each and every day - and what that means to me - to you - to our children...so my revelations over Food Inc and the challanging issues of genetically modified foods and their relevance to our survival was disturbing. 

I just now watched the documentary "The Future of Food." 

Now I'm in "no shit sherlock" land.

No newcomer to the game this documentary - but rather a beacon of light that has been shining for a decade.

Perhaps I - like you - are simply newer to it's message.

Friends - family - students - followers - ALL of you who have a vote - and use your vote - and care for your vote... watch this, I beg you.

I am coming to know with every fiber of my being that our universal presumption that in two, or three, or four years, we can just keep sashaying into our local (USA) supermarket and presume we can nourish ourselves with our purchases is likely to be an illusion beyond measure - and based solely on present moment ignorance. 

Look my dears - look.

www.thefutureoffood.com

It begs the question - who are we, really...and what are we doing?

To those of us in the USA who feel we are the "heroes" of the world...feeding the poor and sending relief to the needy, what are we contributing to the international food industry?  Are we heroes to the less industrialized??  True supporters of the less fortunate???  Watch what we are doing with our rights over food and see if this matches who you think you are, and what you represent. 

Ahhhh...we are so innocent.

I seek not to intrude on your dream state, but rather to empower you to DO what YOU can DO rather than believe that someone else is doing it for you - that you are being "taken care of" - that putting food in pretty packages means that you don't even have to think.

I encourage you  to get your Starbucks now and stay wide awake as you watch the testimony in this film.  Stay awake just long enough to feel something. 

Then act. 

You will know what to do. 

You will know what and where your choices are, and how to vote with your consumer dollars.


You will know.


Namaste

"One Radical and Tactical Shift"

Will is one of the many facebook friends I can now lean on to 

post good and valuable information so that when I scan my

news feed I am enlivened with interesting possibilities and

informative opportunities.  As I routinely selected and

eliminated the negative gripers and woe is me-ers from

my everyday interactions (yes I do indeed work my privacy

settings!) that news feed has become a source of information

 that lightens and inspires me.  I am now quite a fan of good

 and judicious sharing through social networks. 

Today I clicked on a TED video that Will posted about this

fellow who swam across a newly created lake on Mount

Everest...a lake created as the result of glacial melt.

At the end of his talk, Lewis offers a challenge to each and every one

of us - an opportunity to leave the world a better place for our children

as a result of our own choices today.

Highlighting the man, his acumen and his mission seemed

the right stuff for The Hundredth Monkey view.

Lewis Gordon Pugh loves to pioneer new swimming

routes around or between landmarks once thought unswimmable.

 In 2006, he swam the drought-stricken Thames; also that year

he became the first swimmer to do a long-distance swim in all

five oceans of the world. The following year, he made the first

long-distance swim across the North Pole -- where climate

change made the ice temporarily disappear. Heading into the

second decade of his swimming career, he's regarded as the

greatest cold-water swimmer in history. 

His swims have given him a sea-level view of our planet,

and inspired him to do his bit to help preserve it. He left a

career in maritime law to become a public speaker on

environmental issues with his group, Polar Defence Project –

and of course to plan more astonishing swims and treks.

In September 2008, Pugh and Robbie Hedgus kayaked

across the Arctic Ocean into the polar ice pack, to raise

awareness of the thinning sea ice and the dangers of

climate change in the Arctic and across the world. And at t

he end of May 2010 he swam 1 kilometer across Pumori,

a meltwater lake situated next to the Khumbu Glacier on Mount

Everest, at an altitude of 5300 meters, to draw attention to the

melting of the Asian glaciers. He completed the swim -- the

highest any person has undertaken -- in less than 23 minutes. He says:

 "Glaciers are not just ice:

they are a lifeline, 

they provide water to 2 billion people,

and we need to protect them" 

Here's a link to the talk - an inspiring time out for you to view and ponder.

Lewis Pugh Mind Shifting Everest Swim

What did you come up with that you can commit to?

May it be a blessing to all,

namaste