GEOG 204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Agroforestry, Denitrification, Permaculture
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About 9% of your income goes into feeding yourself. Michael pollan: author, advocates for eating smarter, has a saying, eat food, not too much, mostly vegetables , when you go shopping, shop from the outside because the middle of the grocery store is all the processed food. Essentially, shop around the perimeter of the store. Michael pollan: books, the omnivores dilemma, in defense of food. Paul roberts: author, book, the end of food, turns his attention to the modern food economy the system is failing us dramatically, he looks at some alternatives; breaks the system down. Byzantine proverb problem : he who has bread has many problems, he who has no bread has but one. Not where but who: children; most of the are in east asia and africa, 25,000 people die everyday due to hunger and 22,000 of them are children, there is plenty of food in the world for everyone.