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-Jamison Porter
Thursday, March 10, 2011
A Sampling Story from Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
As Cameron Cassan pointed out earlier, Barbara Kingslover in her book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle describes her family's journey on their food odyssey. Kingslover, however, also uses the book as a forum to promote ideas she supports and to warn her readers about her fears surrounding industrialized western food. In one such instance, Kingslover takes a chance to mention the organizations dedicated to protecting and saving heirloom seeds--seeds that have been saved and passed down for generations. Among the organizations she mentioned are Seed Saver's Exchange and Slow Food International. These are the groups dedicating themselves to protecting the remaining variety of food left on our planet. These are the true warriors trying to fight Monsanto and the industrialized food system. Read the following links to learn more.
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This book seems similar to "Eating Animals" in the fact that the authors blend their own narrative into the story. It is interesting to read about the conservation of heirloom seeds and slow food. From random parousal of the internet, I found something called the "Global Seed Vault" which is a place designed to hold seeds from all around the world. If an emergency breaks out and crops (like heirloom crops) are lost, there are copies in the Seed Vault. This vault is in the middle of the Artic Ocean and looks pretty intense. Imagine James Bond meets Farmer Brown. Follow the link to see pictures and read up about it. Really interesting post Jamison.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/29/world/europe/29seeds.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=svalbardglobalseedvault
Shockley
I can't believe that superstructure houses seeds! But you're right, this is just one more step to preserve the diversity of food that we seem to be losing by the minute.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, you should definitely post that article onto your blog. It was a good find on your part.
Jamison Porter