chew on this

there was a slow Food Festival in the vicinity, very appetising smells floated from the food stalls. Melbourne certainly does things in style.

the seminar was about supporting local food & produce, communities coming together to make it happen and enjoying the experience. a move away from the mass produced, frozen fare normally found on the supermarket shelves. wasnt an alien concept, have realised how big the food movement is in Australia. Eyes opened, courtesy an earlier pick from one of my book hunts - Bruce Elder’s “Remember when“

There is this whole different approach to food in the developed world, something that has not gotten around in India.  Only, Our food issues are very different and rightly so, i cant imagine our issues of availability of  healthy clean food for all being superseded by anything else.  but, shouldnt we be wary of issues that might haunt us for the next 30 yrs..

Walk down the aisle with your shopping cart in your local Foodworld. Surely you would have seen the bright orange California oranges on their shelves.. ask the store guy about its freshness  and you get queer looks, “it comes from the US right? how can it not be fresh?” Drive past the mall and you would mistake the queue to be the one for the movies, it is actually people queueing up to get into Mac. 

are we turning a blind eye to what the West has been saying all these days and embracing their discards with open arms.  lets hope we have better sense than that..

panic stations as yet?? am i hyper ventilating? neither, but surely deserves some serious thought.. while you are at that, check out ”Chew on this“. some real food for thought.. let me know what you think