Highlight issues on food substances who are often part of considerable controversy and possible quite harmful , and who often serve as common or ubiquitous additives in processed foods. Soy, corn, vegetable oils, gluten, MSG, etc. So while most likely only brief descriptions are likely to be offered in terms of the actual health controversies of the given food, we will outline how the product might be difficult to identify and how certain financial and political interests may plat a role
The crossover with the Growing Food menu is considerable, both in terms of the environment soil etc will set the stage for the exact constituents, or perhaps energies of a mysterious nature, and in terms of the market possibilities of production needs within the local economy. Part of this spectrum includes the use of time banks and alternative trading systems to augment the conventional market sources. Thus the the local capacities sub menu under the local networking menu will include information on these ideas
The food consumer section also includes a section which is dedicated to how consumer choices that go beyond issues that are strictly food and health related. topics such as general business transparency, labor conditions and pay, recycling and environmental friendly business practices are at least outlined the reason issues are covered is that these issues when considered at the community level are closely tied to a more general consideration for the general well being of the community
Finally there is the subject of how financial and political interests may be skewing information and how marketing and mass media may be having considerable, and perhaps somewhat unseen, effects on the access of information and objectivity in our ability to critically analyze the facts as we find them. No particular conspiracy is required for such interests to have incentives within the conventional marketplace to have influence on the objectivity of food and health information. This is of course can lead us down a road of all to familiar quarrels about the marketplace and the status quo which seems to offer a black hole of endless debate that we wish to avoid. as best as we can we want to offer some observations on the system as it exists, what markers we might want to look for in terms of measuring its success, and consider the possibilities of other type of organizing. There is non one way offered here
The crossover with the Growing Food menu is considerable, both in terms of the environment soil etc will set the stage for the exact constituents, or perhaps energies of a mysterious nature, and in terms of the market possibilities of production needs within the local economy. Part of this spectrum includes the use of time banks and alternative trading systems to augment the conventional market sources. Thus the the local capacities sub menu under the local networking menu will include information on these ideas
The food consumer section also includes a section which is dedicated to how consumer choices that go beyond issues that are strictly food and health related. topics such as general business transparency, labor conditions and pay, recycling and environmental friendly business practices are at least outlined the reason issues are covered is that these issues when considered at the community level are closely tied to a more general consideration for the general well being of the community
Finally there is the subject of how financial and political interests may be skewing information and how marketing and mass media may be having considerable, and perhaps somewhat unseen, effects on the access of information and objectivity in our ability to critically analyze the facts as we find them. No particular conspiracy is required for such interests to have incentives within the conventional marketplace to have influence on the objectivity of food and health information. This is of course can lead us down a road of all to familiar quarrels about the marketplace and the status quo which seems to offer a black hole of endless debate that we wish to avoid. as best as we can we want to offer some observations on the system as it exists, what markers we might want to look for in terms of measuring its success, and consider the possibilities of other type of organizing. There is non one way offered here