[Fts-research] Upcoming weekend
Annie
annie at aseed.net
Wed Apr 10 15:52:04 CEST 2019
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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