Food Justice: A Growing Movement Video

Food Justice: A Growing Movement Video

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First blog post! The video link above really helps to explain food justice from many different point of views. In reality, food justice is just having access to sustainable healthy food. This includes sustainable farming or having your own vegetable garden. The enemies to sustainable farming are the big corporate farms that mass plant. These plants are then sprayed with chemical and pesticides and often injected with substances so that their color is bright. These tactics are motivated by making profits. The problem with this is that it destroys the soils of vast pieces of land. Erosion is a very common result of this type of careless planting. The soil is very often robbed of the minerals that make it fertile. The result of this is useless soil. The corporate farms are also chocking out the little farms that are privately owned. This destroys the biodiversity of the food we eat and it destroys many people's source of subsistence. To support sustainable farming, one should support local farms and teach young people the tactics of sustainable farming. The tactics that should be taught are widely known from the understanding of TEK, or traditional environmental knowledge. The land just can't be planted and used whenever people would like. It has to be respected. The land has to be listened to. I think that people are in too much of a hurry to make a quick buck to take the time to learn how the land should be treated. Maybe we can brainstorm some solutions to this problem while blogging. I just can't see an obvious answer to this problem.
-Seneca Luetke