Not a lot of healthy food for the families in the USA......
Iolly, Jul 16, 2007 @ 00:18

Jesus... all the other tables make me puke. So much Coke, so much sugar, so much salt, so many packs, cans, tins, plastic bags, boxes, bottles, aditives, colorants, hydroninised anything, E612, etc. Where is genuine raw food gone ? Who stole true colors, real flavours, natural shapes, soil perfume and sunshine taste ? I'll go to the bio market for lunch today !
Hobbes, Jul 16, 2007 @ 14:20

A bit on the same track, here is an interesting article about butter and full fat milk being healthier than magarine and skimmed milk: http://www.westonaprice.org/foodfeatures/butter.html
Hobbes, Jul 16, 2007 @ 14:21

When I go back home, i eat much more then here and I loose weight. Cause my mom goes to the market every day (and so does my dad), buy veggies and pasta and meat and cook them properly and healthly. But my mom is a full time mom and has always been (bless her) and my dad is a chef as 'evening' job and passion. When I am Geneva I make 1 or 2 heatly meals a week, and i try to cook something from raw materials once a month (home made pasta) .. but the truth is that I, like most of the people today, work more then I should, want to go to the fitness center, want to go out and see my friends, and cannot afford a cleaning lady (and to be honest in Geneva not eveng fresh food from the market everyday!! ) ...so ... quick fixes are the norm. Sad but true. I want my mom back :) (for the cooking!!)
Val - bright and shiny today
Hoiling, Jul 16, 2007 @ 17:56

Am touched by the Ayme family of Tingo, Ecuador. Not only by their natural family recipe but also by their lovely family smile.

These pictures remind me Frances Moore Lappe’ books, Food First, and Diet for a small planet. A visionary writer and a radical fighter of world food and hunger issues. She completely changes the way many people see modern food production, food industry, the commercialization of our daily diet and world hunger issues. Do care what I eat and cook daily since it’s cheaper and healthier. Am happy to be in control over what I eat. We are what we eat! What the world eats changes the world!

Hobbes, apart from the bio stand at Coop, Eaux-Vives 2000, there is a weekend farmer’s market in Rive. I go there for food shopping sometimes. Join me sometimes?

wayne, Jul 31, 2007 @ 01:13

Cooking by yourself is certainly more healthy, satisfying and tasty, and possibly more ecological. But can it really be cheaper ? I wanted once too cook some pasta al pesto. Buying raw garlic, basil and pine nuts was something like 5 times more expensive than buying the ready made sauce. I won't even mention the pasta themselves. My office restaurant offers poultry, rice, two vegetables and a salad for 11.50chf. Doesn't cost it more to cook it yourself (electricity included ?). What are the conditions to get cheaper than that ?
Hobbes, Jul 31, 2007 @ 13:53

If anyone's interested, here are the links to the books you mentionned:
- http://www.amazon.com/Diet-Small-Planet-20th-Anniversary/dp/0345321200
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diet_for_a_Small_Planet
- http://www.amazon.com/Food-First-Frances-Moore-Lappe/dp/0345290453/ref=sr_1_25/105-5518614-5634020?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1185875196&sr=1-25

And by the same author, what seems to be an interesting book also: "World Hunger: Twelve Myths"

"Summary

The food resources of the world are abundant rather than scarce according to Peter Rosset, director of Institute for Food and Development Policy in California. Even in countries with excess food production millions are starving. This is explained in detail in the recent book "World hunger: Twelve Myths", Second Edition.

- The belief that world hunger can be solved by increasing food production is an unsubstantiated myth. It has lead to policies by international organs that have supported farming policies that in practice have boosted production of expensive export foods on the expense of production of basic foods for the population.

The real problem is poverty. As the market responds to money and not to actual need, it can only work to eliminate hunger when purchasing power is widely dispersed according to Rosset. As the rural poor are increasingly pushed from land, they are less and less able to demand for food on the market. Promoting free trade to alleviate hunger has proven to be a failure. In most developing countries exports have boomed while hunger has continued unabated or actually worsened according to the book.

(...)
World food supply is abundant
Natural catastrophes not a cause
Overpopulation not a cause
Large farms no solution
Free-markets and lifting tariffs on trade are no solutions
Foreign aid counterproductive
World hunger can be eliminated
(...)
Conclusion

The world could feed itself if food policies were based on facts an not on myths as presently. The fact is that there is no scarcity of food. The real reason for the world hunger problem is poverty. This requires political and not agrotechnical solutions.


(Source: http://www.psrast.org/nowohu.htm)"
Hobbes, Jul 31, 2007 @ 13:54