The culture I live in today is based on material objects. Be it the toys and electronics or the plastic surgery that women go through to make their appearance better looking. Everyone in the society gets off on it and no one gets back to the basics the simple things in life. Everyone needs that extra something to get that high so they can enjoy the shitty life they have for five minutes. Instead of making life for them and the other around them better. And the material objects go even farther than the iPods it even ties into the food. The food in the culture that I live in is just like the material things. We just use it to get full and move on to the more important things in our life, when in essence food is probably the most important thing in our lives next to water. Food in our culture is one aspect of a larger nightmare.
Food is a rather medium size puzzle in the problem with our society. If you thing of our society as a triangle food would be in the middle sandwiched by peak oil on top the smaller piece and the peoples mindset on the bottom the largest piece. And each piece ties into one another by if peak oil eventually happens the food system we live off will collapse and the reason for peak oil to happen is the mindset of the people thinking that it’s a hoax and truly not going to happen. What really should happen to make this triangle puzzle the solution and not the problem is the smallest piece should be the peoples mindset because we should all be on the same page about how badly run our food system is and peak oil is inevitable. Then the medium sized piece should be peak oil because if we do not act fast we will be unprepared and due to that people will die and the more prepared we are the less deaths to happen. And finally the last piece is the largest and its our food. This is the biggest concern because it is completely relying on oil and if everyone is on the same page we know is going to peak and then in turn collapse and be useless to everyone. And with out oil people will not be able to get food because the system will crash and no longer be there. So if we get on the same page prepare for peak oil and change the food system we will all live longer and happier lives.
The culture we live in these days is just so complex. Everything is made to be easy but you have twelve easy steps to do it. And the way to right our wrongs is to get back to the basics and the simple way of life. We need to stop this fight against nature and work with nature. Once we get on that path everything will fall into place and the things that we should really cherish will rise to the surface and mean more than anything to everyone.
Sunday, June 10, 2007
final one
Food in the human society has been through a roller coaster. It started as a necessity and then it has ended up where it is today as fuel for the body. When civilization started humans hunted for food so they could survive and live. There was no supermarket to go to so humans could pick what they wanted to eat for dinner that night. They left their camps for a few hours a day to hunt and get food for each of there families. These humans were called hunter-gatherers they went out hunting for their food and gathered it to stockpile and use when hungry and necessary.
The second way of making and getting food is agriculture and this way of getting food is by planting seed to make food. There is one very basic way of making food out of seeds. This would be called sprouting. What you do is take any kind of seeds such as chickpea’s, sunflower seeds and broccoli seeds. Then you take your seed and you put them in a clean jar that does not have any smell because of there is a smell then your sprouts will have the taste of the smell of your jar ( jar smells like tomato sauce, your sprouts will taste like tomato sauce). Once you have a good amount of sprouts in your jar you add water too the jar, as much ass you need to cover the seeds in the jar. Then cover the jar with a cheesecloth and rubber band and let sit for twenty-four hours. After the twenty-four hours drain out the water and rinse the seeds in the jar, while seeds are still in the jar covered by the cheesecloth. Once you have rinsed out the seeds in the jar make sure all the water is out of the jar or that will attract mold and mold will not make your sprouts taste good. Continue this until you see your sprouts sprout and enjoy.
This is one very basic sustainable way of agriculture. And I stress the word sustainable because the way agriculture is run today its not even called agriculture its industrial agriculture. And its industrial because humans do not run it anymore because they cannot run the farm fast enough to make a large profit off of the farm. So they use machines and pesticides to create the most revenue and that way of agriculture is good in the short run because of all the food it makes but it is not sustainable and eventually all the pesticides will be ineffective and there will be no more fuel for the machines and the earth will be ripped apart beyond repair.
Then again there is always a twist. Scientist are coming up with new ideas and ways to make food by changing genes in food to make them even with out planting. Having watermelon with out seeds and making other ridiculously strange new foods that only would be possible with the technology we have today. There is even a way to farm without dirt and its called hydroponic farming and most of the crops we eat to day are hydroponic crops. And there will be plenty more new and intriguing ideas to make food when we could all just go back to the beginning and plant our own crops and food and life would be oh so simple.
The second way of making and getting food is agriculture and this way of getting food is by planting seed to make food. There is one very basic way of making food out of seeds. This would be called sprouting. What you do is take any kind of seeds such as chickpea’s, sunflower seeds and broccoli seeds. Then you take your seed and you put them in a clean jar that does not have any smell because of there is a smell then your sprouts will have the taste of the smell of your jar ( jar smells like tomato sauce, your sprouts will taste like tomato sauce). Once you have a good amount of sprouts in your jar you add water too the jar, as much ass you need to cover the seeds in the jar. Then cover the jar with a cheesecloth and rubber band and let sit for twenty-four hours. After the twenty-four hours drain out the water and rinse the seeds in the jar, while seeds are still in the jar covered by the cheesecloth. Once you have rinsed out the seeds in the jar make sure all the water is out of the jar or that will attract mold and mold will not make your sprouts taste good. Continue this until you see your sprouts sprout and enjoy.
This is one very basic sustainable way of agriculture. And I stress the word sustainable because the way agriculture is run today its not even called agriculture its industrial agriculture. And its industrial because humans do not run it anymore because they cannot run the farm fast enough to make a large profit off of the farm. So they use machines and pesticides to create the most revenue and that way of agriculture is good in the short run because of all the food it makes but it is not sustainable and eventually all the pesticides will be ineffective and there will be no more fuel for the machines and the earth will be ripped apart beyond repair.
Then again there is always a twist. Scientist are coming up with new ideas and ways to make food by changing genes in food to make them even with out planting. Having watermelon with out seeds and making other ridiculously strange new foods that only would be possible with the technology we have today. There is even a way to farm without dirt and its called hydroponic farming and most of the crops we eat to day are hydroponic crops. And there will be plenty more new and intriguing ideas to make food when we could all just go back to the beginning and plant our own crops and food and life would be oh so simple.
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