Welcome to the blog for Colgate University's interdisciplinary course on food. This is the place to keep up with what students in the course are experiencing in their work at Common Thread Community Farm and through their everyday encounters with food.

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

This is Not Sustainable

This is NOT Sustainable blog, forwarded from a friend.

These (beautifully developed) photographs are windows into our global blindness toward environmental injustices, and our lack of action on such issues. Some of these shots relate well to our class conversations. Take particular note of these pictures...
  • Brazilian deforestation for sugarcane production
  • Amazon deforestation to fulfill meat industry demands
  • the thousands of "unfit" chicks
  • industrial tomatoes bred for size
  • the "illusion of choice" in a supermarket
  • turkeys reaching 32 pounds in 18 weeks 
  • the suicide of Indian farmers after using genetically modified crops.

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