tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793702278130036246.post2041985914518271541..comments2024-03-28T09:25:14.379+00:00Comments on Veg Plotting: Food 2030VPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02732971362066784175noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793702278130036246.post-63740606724505926222010-03-22T16:05:20.272+00:002010-03-22T16:05:20.272+00:00Soilman - thanks - your post also helped to crysta...Soilman - thanks - your post also helped to crystalise my thoughts on this matter too. I hope that you're wrong about the change in our nature though...VPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02732971362066784175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793702278130036246.post-24177721912231937802010-01-31T08:22:21.507+00:002010-01-31T08:22:21.507+00:00Nice post, VP, and bang on the money. As usual wit...Nice post, VP, and bang on the money. As usual with this lot, it's all talk and spin... no action. They never intended any. They just want the announcement headline. <br /><br />If they get re-elected, they'll announce it again in 18 months - and again two years after that. Still no action. This is just what they do.<br /><br />Until substantive steps are taken, it's all what Americans call 'phoney baloney'. And I think you're right; it will have to be forced through from the top down. <br /><br />I love the notion of people 'playing their part', but I don't believe we live in that country any more. It's 'sauve qui peut' in the modern UK. People won't act in the community's best interest. That civic-minded outlook has seeped out of our national character.Soilmanhttp://www.soilman.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793702278130036246.post-33845793912360369702010-01-27T20:47:15.333+00:002010-01-27T20:47:15.333+00:00Anonymous - your last sentence hits the nail bang ...Anonymous - your last sentence hits the nail bang on the head.<br /><br />NG - good to have this info because I thought the NC had been changed to teach the actual skill of cooking. Sounds like you need to get cracking on the rewrite!<br /><br />Petoskystone - absolutely . Lots of people seem to forget the reduce element of the reduce reuse recycle mantra don't they?<br /><br />Tim - welcome! A counterpoint to that programme is <i>Jimmy's Global Harvest</i> currently showing on Thursdays. I was shocked by most of what's going on in Brazil and Australia, though the latter had some interesting results on preventing salty groundwater reaching the soil's surface and how to retain the same levels of production using half as much water.VPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02732971362066784175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793702278130036246.post-36042414285643261682010-01-25T17:46:37.009+00:002010-01-25T17:46:37.009+00:00Great article, the whole business of sustainabilit...Great article, the whole business of sustainability and food production was very well articulated in a BBC documentary last year called A Farm For the Future - sadly no longer available on iPlayer althought there is a brief excerpt here <a rel="nofollow"> http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00hs8zp</a> which is worth taking a look at. If it comes around again do try and watch it they come up with some excellent strategies about how food production and our eating habits will need to cahnge in the alarmingly near future.timmatchamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16558755936935056446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793702278130036246.post-32061461269297682582010-01-25T16:09:14.060+00:002010-01-25T16:09:14.060+00:00the problem i have with the container-&-flyer ...the problem i have with the container-&-flyer approach is that it glosses over the stark realities you mention. it promotes the idea that if a person merely follows the chart & cuts down on take out, that is all that needs to be done. such an approach doesn't give an understanding of the complexities of the food supply systems we have in place. this, in turn, allows corporations license to run free. as for housing, americans, esp., buy into the idea that more is better. when, given population & food issues, i think it's time to look to just the opposite. when it comes to my area, people with lower incomes buy what is cheapest: processed crap. the healthier & more sustainably produced, the more expensive it is. &, once more, americans seem to be believe that more is better when it comes to calorie counts!petoskystonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01633621111274495078noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793702278130036246.post-50754965322573660342010-01-25T13:52:54.201+00:002010-01-25T13:52:54.201+00:00Whilst I am all in favour of healthy eating and st...Whilst I am all in favour of healthy eating and stategies to promote it, as a school Governor I also think that it has to be linked to the national curriculum.<br /><br />Currently years 7-9 (11 to 14 year olds) are taught Food Technology, which looks at the science of what happens during the cooking process, but they are not taught 'proper' cookery like the Domestic Science we had when I were a lass!<br /><br />Many families (fortunately not mine!)use ready-made overly processed food and have little or no idea how to cook from scratch, so will not take up something like 'Love your Leftovers'because they're not eating the sort of meals that can be converted into something else the following day.<br /><br />Perhaps I could rewrite the Food Tech curriculum?!!Nutty Gnomehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06146296943319504785noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4793702278130036246.post-3162190571428303522010-01-25T12:33:54.713+00:002010-01-25T12:33:54.713+00:00On land use for a growing population, you might wa...On land use for a growing population, you might want to take a look at this Halifax report on housing over the past 50 years (http://www.lloydsbankinggroup.com/media/pdfs/research/2010/50_Years_of_Housing_UK.pdf) <br /><br />One of the main trends has been the rise of detached housing and the decline of semis. Of course, this means more land is used per house. Plus the reduced density makes some people feel that more cars are necessary. <br /><br />As someone who currently lives in a terrace house (and grows as much food as possible in our tiny space), and who wants to buy a semi to have more food production area, I can't say it seems a good idea to be building so many detached houses -- or flats, unless the residents have access to communal growing space.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com