Devouring the Planet – True Cost of Food

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Posted on Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008   

Author: Karl Fitzgerald    Print This Post Print This Post

Time: 7pm, Friday August 1

A kilogram of beef contains between 15,000 and 100,000 litres of embodied water. For every kilogram of wheat grown in Australia, seven kilograms of topsoil are lost. We give lip service to concerns about peak oil and greenhouse gases, yet our agricultural industry is utterly dependent on unsustainable quantities of polluting petrochemicals.

There’s no reason why this insanity can’t be quickly and effortlessly changed to a geoist system of economics which inherently recognises the true value of natural resources. The major obstacle to change actually lies with the peddlers of our current neoclassical economics. You can side with these peddlers and relax, ignore the food riots, have a beer and flick on the TV, or you can come and be prepared in the knowledge that will help in the transition away from the consequences of our dietary choices.

Speaker: Karl Williams (a.k.a. Mr. Ed)
Venue: Prosper Australia, 1st floor, 27 Hardware Lane, Melbourne
All welcome, light supper provided, gold coin donation, inquiries to Karl Fitzgerald or on 9670-2754

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