We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Saturday, November 19, 2011

Food Policy, Economists, and the Hazards of Assuming a Can Opener

Click here to access article by Anna Lappé from Civil Eats. 

The author challenges the capitalist assumptions that serve to justify industrial agriculture.
The arguments are based in flawed assumptions, obfuscated by fancy charts, big words, and complex calculations.