http://vimeo.com/8812686
The first feeling I got while I was watching this video was fear. I was the most scared when I heard that in 2050, the world's food production will have to be doubled. I will be alive during this time, with a family! What will we do? The food we will be eating will definitely not be healthy if we don't start supporting local farms and organic products immediately. I am a little bit discouraged because I don't foresee people changing their ways very dramatically in the near future. I frequently ask myself if we will ever start realizing the consequences of our actions.
"Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Give a man a fishing rod and he will eat for a lifetime." I feel that this is part of the solution to the unbalanced global food market. We are so focused on helping people, yet we don't even understand that we are actually hurting them when we provide them with goods. We need to come up with a solution that will help people in the long term, rather than on a one time basis. Furthermore, food drop offs help in the short term by providing a meal, but hurt in the long term by lowering the value of local food.
"By choosing a dish of lentils instead of steak, he consumes 1/6 of the farming land and 1/12 of the water and this leaves more for others." This quote speaks directly to me because I have chosen not to eat meat. This is one of the biggest reasons why I do not eat meat. I find that the quantity of meat and the frequency it is eaten at is not sustainable.
