Another day I was reading some news in a local newspaper and I got kind of itchy while went through a real story about an experiment with a locavore family.
Meantime: the term “locavore” means people who are decided to consume food produced locally (or something like products grown or harvested within a 100 miles away from their homes).
So this family decided to live in a small farm in the middle of US in a big city and with $11,000 funded by the New York Magazine. Husband, wife and two children started to build their new source of life. After some slaughtery, rabbit-massacres and lots of children-making-faces-about-the-new-and-strong-taste of natural chickens, the experiments results were a disaster. At a cost of $120 per meal per month, the conclusion, according to the magazine, was that living in a farm is not a sustainable deal. At least for these guys…
Sustainability. Word that defines the process of starting, to raise, grow, use, reuse and recycle in a controlled and thoughtful way to fill needs in the present time without compromising future generations (of people and environment). The objective of sustainability is to take maximum results with minimal waste and damage to the society and nature. Sustainability can be applied in any process that is a cycle like personal (relationships), industrial or social matters.
With an investment of $11,000 in a farm for only 4 people, how come a complex process as sustainability can be reached in only one month?
It scares me when I read experiments results in a popular magazine that concludes that sustainability is not sustainable.
To implement the process of sustainability it requires time and (why not?) patience. Nature’s time is slow and unfortunately human beings have no patience to wait for the nature’s cycle.
There are so many researchers working and studying hard to make it works. Many years studying the cycles of nature and trying to find a way to adjust nature and human being’s cycles so both can coexist together. Because right now we are killing our own planet.
And then a group of people who always have been living in the big city decided to play farmers for a month and publish the conclusion in a world where most of people still believe and stick on those conclusions statements. Unfortunately those news spread as quickly as a flu and media has to be careful about these statements.
Media, Science and Government should work together in order to bring benefits to the society, feeding the good mood in people’s hearts and encouraging good acts and thoughts. Media mainly should use its influence to make people grow instead of bringing people down with its poor conclusions about something that human beings are struggling in to understand yet.
For more information please visit:
Locavores' Webiste
Definition of Sustainability
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