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Re: CSA Book comments ...and a Sustainable living ethic (fwd)



While these comments have merit, isn't our hope that persons of all types
will visit our farms.  We are preaching to the choir on this list, but out
of the thousands (hopefully) CSA members who visit our farms (with the next
generation of food purchasers in tow) some will appreciate the process as
much as the product.  I have been able since I was quite small to walk in a
garden and identify the various plants how many of our contemporaries are as
fortunate. Beth
-----Original Message-----
From: Lawrence F. London, Jr. <london@sunsite.unc.edu>
To: csa-l@prairienet.org <csa-l@prairienet.org>
Date: Friday, January 23, 1998 12:54 PM
Subject: CSA Book comments ...and a Sustainable living ethic (fwd)


>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 10:15:05 -0500
>From: REAP <reap@interlink.net>
>To: sanet-mg@amani.ces.ncsu.edu
>Subject: CSA Book comments ...and a Sustainable living ethic
>
>I couldn't agree more with  Michele Gale-Sinex's comments yesterday
>about the CSA book signing at Barnes and Noble. It is just a wee bit
>hippoish trying to encourage consumers to be more conscious of their
>food through the development of an alternative food production and
>distribution system and then delivering the message through the biggest
>book store that is cleaning up the independents.
>
>Wrapped around all the light lingo of Michel's comments is a pretty
>heavy message..a calling for a sustainable living ethic in much the same
>spirit as Aldo Leopold called for a Land Ethic. We have to become
>conscious of all our actions and not just worry about our particular
>field. Otherwise we are falling into the same trap as reductionist
>science with the same results...no real progress for society.
>
>So all we "sustaggies" need to take up the call and become individual
>Martin Luthers and start walking the talk of a sustainable living
>ethic.
>
>Roger Samson
>Executive Director
>
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>REAP-Canada
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