BEFORE2030 - A LIVABLE FUTURE For people, planet, and all life
RE-SKILL FOR HOME COOKING, REDUCE PROCESSED FOOD INTAKE
Everyone tells me they have no time to cook. And yet according to the numbers, people watch at least four hours of some kind of media a day. Here’s the amazing thing, you can continue watching media while you cook! This goes along with the reduction of Agricide and the industrial highly processed food system. And the fact that doctors, who are mainly nutritionally illiterate, will, I think, focus more on this when the health system breaks from the sickness generated by the old system.
Now we have a 50% reduction in consumerism, a shorter workweek, universal basic income, everyone has more time to cook. I’m distinguishing cooking with whole recognizable foods, from heating up pre-packaged, sugar-weighted, processed edible substances made by corporations.
When I take after-school programs with children and ask them if they want to learn to cook, I can’t finish the sentence before all the hands are thrust into the air. It seems in my neighborhood there’s a lot of people watching cooking shows at home, and the kids are primed ready for it. To me, cooking yourself a great quality meal is one of the best gifts you can give yourself, I grew up in the 1950s and 60s, there was little choice in the matter. And fortunately, through my extensive travels, I learned to appreciate and cook the dishes from many different cultures. If schools had been teaching sufficient cooking skills all this time, the children would be demanding a higher quality of sustenance. Relocalizing the food system is sure to encourage this, what a renaissance that could lead to.
Of course, it should be concentrated on heavily plant-based ingredients for a sustainable world.
Further info:
Franky Lappe, Diet for a Small Planet
https://plantricianproject.org
Everyone tells me they have no time to cook. And yet according to the numbers, people watch at least four hours of some kind of media a day. Here’s the amazing thing, you can continue watching media while you cook! This goes along with the reduction of Agricide and the industrial highly processed food system. And the fact that doctors, who are mainly nutritionally illiterate, will, I think, focus more on this when the health system breaks from the sickness generated by the old system.
Now we have a 50% reduction in consumerism, a shorter workweek, universal basic income, everyone has more time to cook. I’m distinguishing cooking with whole recognizable foods, from heating up pre-packaged, sugar-weighted, processed edible substances made by corporations.
When I take after-school programs with children and ask them if they want to learn to cook, I can’t finish the sentence before all the hands are thrust into the air. It seems in my neighborhood there’s a lot of people watching cooking shows at home, and the kids are primed ready for it. To me, cooking yourself a great quality meal is one of the best gifts you can give yourself, I grew up in the 1950s and 60s, there was little choice in the matter. And fortunately, through my extensive travels, I learned to appreciate and cook the dishes from many different cultures. If schools had been teaching sufficient cooking skills all this time, the children would be demanding a higher quality of sustenance. Relocalizing the food system is sure to encourage this, what a renaissance that could lead to.
Of course, it should be concentrated on heavily plant-based ingredients for a sustainable world.
Further info:
Franky Lappe, Diet for a Small Planet
https://plantricianproject.org
