DOCUMENTARY REVIEW: SUSTAINABLE
Industrial farming. Fertilizer runoff. Polluted grounds and soils. This is what sustainable, ethical, environmentally friendly farming practices are trying to combat. The documentary Sustainable is a great resource that highlights the importance of local farming and the impact the practice has on the community, land, food activism, food security, and the healthy, vibrant, and synergetic cultivation of community. THE CRISIS OF FOOD CONSUMPTION Former New York Times columnist Mark Bittman notes how food production and consumption are suffering a crisis: “It’s not a crisis that you wake up and see every morning. It’s at a crisis point where you have a health care crisis, where our land and water is being badly used, and [where] agriculture is the number two culprit in climate change.” There are a host of influential,…
