Nutrional Health and the Environment
From: Reflections on Nutritional Health and the Environment: The Journey to Sustainability , Joan Dye Gussow, EdD., Revised: April, 2006
Carlo Petrini is founder of Slow Food, the largest among a number of groups working to stem the loss of place-based seeds, species, foods and traditions. (46) " Never as in this moment." Petrini said recently, "have consumers shared a common destiny. . . a mutual obligation." To which Slow Food USA's executive director, Erica Lesser, added, "Only when people see their choices--what we purchase, what we eat--as a part of the food production system can we succeed against agribusiness models that ignore the essential balance between nature and culture, endangering our foods, our communities, and our futures ." (47)
(46) e.g., www.Slowfood.com , www.Seedsavers.com , www.nativeseeds.org ,
www.environment.nau.edu/raft /.
(47) Lesser E., Letter from Slow Food USA; November 2005.
Carlo Petrini is founder of Slow Food, the largest among a number of groups working to stem the loss of place-based seeds, species, foods and traditions. (46) " Never as in this moment." Petrini said recently, "have consumers shared a common destiny. . . a mutual obligation." To which Slow Food USA's executive director, Erica Lesser, added, "Only when people see their choices--what we purchase, what we eat--as a part of the food production system can we succeed against agribusiness models that ignore the essential balance between nature and culture, endangering our foods, our communities, and our futures ." (47)
(46) e.g., www.Slowfood.com , www.Seedsavers.com , www.nativeseeds.org ,
www.environment.nau.edu/raft /.
(47) Lesser E., Letter from Slow Food USA; November 2005.
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