What we all need. What the country needs.
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We’re always part of the system we happen to describe.
Actions speak louder than words, but words, too, have a role to play.
One thing is certain, talks about peace or an equitable world are delusional.
The following sets the tone for a new narrative.
LET FOOD BE THY MEDICINE / LET FOOD BE THY KNOWLEDGE
Food equates to life and underwrites all agendas. Let us enter all food/life
cycles then. Only the food/life cycles can indicate a clear pathway for they
act like a sure and unfailing reinforcement of our actions, a corrective
guidance to our learning and an indication of our rightful or wrongful ways
of doing things.
Against a background of fear and apprehension, the answers we seek can only
be found within a fuller narrative.
We crave learning as much as we crave food. A problem arises:
OUR POTENTIAL FOR LEARNING IS UNMENT VIS-À-VIS ITS ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES.
Embracing farming is like turning over a new leaf. Hence,
Local Economies Are Forever (LEAF), and FOOD lies at the centre of it all.
Food stands alone. It provides the sought-after focus and perspective.
Health, education and economy depend on it.
We Deserve Much Much Better / Food: A Salutary Lesson
On words first, my own work has a high educational flavour.
Food is the produce of the soil
Food is the fons et origo of all knowledge, of culture and traditions,
trade, ecology and science.
The inclusiveness of food is exclusive to food. Learning can only acquire
its meaning from a fully-fledged food education and culture.
We crave learning as much as we crave food.
Food details the history of humankind.
Food is the harbinger of Life.
Food makes communities.
Food is about upbringing and education.
Food is energy as much as energy is human endeavour.
Food is convivial, exemplary, totemic.
Food is the pace-setter.
Food speaks of creation and creativity.
Food is the hardware and software and covers the whole spectrum.
A glance at etymology shows that food is a blend of chemistry and
physics.
We avail ourselves of a handy word, culture, that applies to both the
cultivation of the land (horticulture, agriculture, viticulture) and the
cultivation of the mind (a literary tradition and culture, a cultured
person). How insensitive though to forgo one for the other.
Hardship breeds hardship. We need an education that transcends hardship.
The specific lesson referred to above is exemplified next:
{‘Mario’}.
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