Even since I started on this post, there has been yet another news report of tainted beef. There are many issues with our food production systems, which jeopardize sustainability.
The issue isn’t limited to land. Recently I had the opportunity to watch “Where is the Catch” a short film on the over-fishing of the Pacific. We tend to think, as the saying goes, that “there are plenty of fish in the sea,” but this is no longer the case.
Imagine this, a hunter goes off to hunt a deer but in the process of hunting the deer, the hunter kills all the other animals for miles around and then leaves taking only the deer. If this were a common practice, we would be outraged. This is the analogy used by the film’s presenter for what is occurring in our oceans every day.
After the film someone asked “What can we do?” the presenter responded “Don’t eat 99 cent fish tacos..or at least, only have them once in awhile” To that I would add 99 cent burgers and other “cheap” food.
Of course, cheap food isn’t really cheap at all. It seems that way because it’s only a buck or two out of our pockets, but not only are we passing the cost off to future generations, we’re paying it ourselves in obesity and other illnesses.
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