This is Mark Bittman, NYTimes food writer. It's 20 minutes long, and well worth the time (on eating animals, Bittman, an omnivore, reasonably suggests, "... the time has come to stop raising them industrially and stop eating them thoughtlessly.")
He reminds us, in a brief review of the last 100 years of food, that at one time, everyone ate local, and specifically mentions Florida oranges, which weren't available in every grocery store back in the day. I do have fond memories of Christmases in my youth, when down at the very bottom of my stocking, filling up the toe, was always a big, sweet, juicy orange. Oh, it was good, and very special.
2 comments:
Yes, like what a treat it was for NYC relatives when we sent Florida oranges/grapefruits at Christmas. In those days you could only get certain fruits at certain times of the year...which made you appreciate them all the more when available.
Excellent talk. I know that what's threatening the rain forest isn't logging or pollution, but meat production, either directly or indirectly. A lot of good can be done simply by reducing the number of meals with meats that we eat per week - bring down the demand. And those of us in the west need to set an example for countries like China in that respect. We have no right to demand that others do what we won't.
The orange used to be a cherished Christmas gift in Norway, too, but by the time I had moved to Norway, the custom had faded.
PS: I'd never consider sea-farmed fish "organic". It's farmed with chemicals, even if its just drugs to remove fish lice.
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