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Shen Tong
A Twinkie in Maine has not decayed since 1976, neither has a burger in Utah since 1999 Grass-fed beef has up to 5x the omega-3s as CAFO (aka industrial) beef China has the fastest growing rate of childhood obesity, 1 in 6 boys and 1 in 11 girls The food & agriculture industry grosses over $9 trillion a year, over 20 times the size of the entire software industry. Food from the “industrialized” food system is less nutritionally dense than organic, sustainably-grown food. The crops grown today in poor soil with the aid of synthetic chemicals are more sugary and less nutrient rich than crops from 50 years ago.
The food system is broken. Factory farming and monocultures are rapidly degrading the environment and depleting our resources. Within the good food movement, there is widespread consensus about this. Where the real debate lies is in how we should fix it. Is more technology the answer to food sustainability or the problem? Will lab-grown meat and engineered faux meat lead the way to a carbon-neutral future or will the solution come from the plant-based movement? Quite possibly the answer will incorporate innovations from both technological advancement and culinary/agricultural tradition. Regardless of which gains
Movements do not and cannot exist in a vacuum The past year’s emotionally, politically charged election and the recent transition to a new presidential administration have illuminated this fundamental truth. Half a million people mobilized for the Women’s March in D.C., and another five million participated in nearly seven hundred sister marches throughout the U.S. and across all seven continents to stand together in support of equal rights for not only women but for communities of color, immigrants, LGBTQIA, and disabled people as well as other important issues of our time such as wage inequality, climate change