The Politics of Food

Food is basic to human existence. For most of human history, people have been intimately connected to the land that fed them through the food that grew on it.

This intimate connection with the land has been broken for the vast majority of people in the US today. Most do not know where there food is grown, nor do they have any idea of what is necessary to bring it to the table. Nowadays genetically-engineered food is grown by specialized, large-scale farms in faraway places, and picked, washed, packaged, and transported tremendous distances before finally reaching the consumerís table. This is made possible only by massive inputs of chemical pesticides and fertilizers, and aided and abetted by a National Policy of Cheap Food at Any Cost. The end result of this industrialization of agriculture is tasteless, environmentally-polluting, nutritionally dead food, which only increases the profit margins of the multi-national parent corporation while the smaller family farms go belly-up.

CSAs can help heal this broken connection, and reconnect people with the land that nurtures them. CSAs create a direct relationship between the people who grow food and the people who eat it, and through this cooperation between farm and community a sustainable, local food supply can regain its essential role in our society.

For more information, contact:

Four Winds Farm
Jay & Polly Armour
158 Marabac Rd.
Gardiner, NY 12525-5614
845-255-3088
e-mail: jarmour@bestweb.net

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