[Fts-research] Upcoming weekend

[Annie]

Hello research group!

I hope you are all good and enjoying the beginnings of Spring. I will 
not be attending the weekend in Bremen, I have to work on the farm as it 
is super busy right now with getting things into the ground!

I'm not sure how other people's research is going for the Free the Soil, 
I know from my side that I have been very busy and have not necessarily 
done as much as I would have liked. Softy, from the camp infrastructure 
group, emailed asking for information about alternatives and the current 
situation regarding Yara. It would be good to use this weekend to 
provide other working groups with information they need if we have it 
already.

Some suggestions for how to use the working group time during the coming 
weekend. I don't think it is necessary to discuss again what topics we 
should be working on etc as we already have these in mind, rather 
perhaps its a good idea for people to bring their laptops and work 
together on the topics they assigned themselves to at the last meeting 
and see if we could get something written up by the end of the weekend? 
We could add readings to the website? Work on the Q and A together as we 
ran out of time for this in the last meeting, could be interesting to do 
this together in a group and research some answers during the weekend? 
We can also add to the Lexicon. If anyone has written up anything would 
be great if they could bring it with them to share.

I found some interesting readings this week which I will attach in this 
mail. How is it going with people using the cloud? For me sometimes it 
locks me out for a week or so, but then I can get back in again. Does 
this happen with other people, maybe something to bring up over the 
weekend?

Another thing to be discussed maybe is how do people feel about the use 
of this email list?

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/04/green-new-deal-agriculture-farm-workers?fbclid=IwAR2lcgwyuw2YuG6PHie_XIZU2N7sp4Upf2dLMqZ-yTMIDaxp5fdHx0rWcOE
Very long article but some interesting points:

"To pay workers well, to grow a polyculture of crops that can help 
sequester carbon and battle the sixth extinction, to farm without 
chemicals that poison workers, air, and water — all are militated 
against by the arrangements of payments that currently prevail. It’s 
rarely profitable to farm agroecologically when the rules of the game 
reward ecological devastation, worker exploitation, and monoculture.

Corroborating evidence that the food industry is premised on destruction 
comes from an unlikely source. A 2012 report by KPMG singled out the 
food industry as the most environmentally damaging of any sector, with 
conservatively calculated externalities equaling 224 percent of the food 
industry’s revenues. This is the kind of result that ought to give 
defenders of the current food system pause. If this data is correct — 
and at a conference of donors in 2015 a senior Nestlé executive 
suggested that these ratios accurately reflected the findings of an 
internal audit at his corporation — then there’s only one conclusion: 
there’s no such thing as a sustainable food industry. Either the 
industry is profitable by dint of its externalities, or it stops making 
food and money".

I also attached the latest document regarding "Organic Farming in the 
EU"
and also a word document with some links to articles surrounding the 
Yara's corrupt history.

Ok, think that's all for now. I hope you all have a really great weekend 
in Bremen. Look forward to the next time we see each other!
Cheers,
Annie
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