If the 2010s were marked by techno-solutionism, then the 2020s might be the decade of "natural solutionism". Both are flawed, disdain the regulatory state, and in both "expertise is treated as suspect, corrupt, or altogether illegitimate, with anecdotes and mantras replacing verifiable data"
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To suggest they need to read more is condescending and, well, wrong. They're both thoughtful and well-informed.
I mean to point out that it lacks a lot of important nuance from ecological critiques from global peasant movements, which makes it come off as dismissive of subaltern critiques of capitalist food systems
I hear all the time from people who are unhappy with what I've left out, and they often assume I leave it out because I don't know it or understand it, rather than that I have a different point to make, and I see the problem in a different light.
I recommend @ipes-food.org (2016) From Uniformity to Diversity — as a far better guide for what we in this area of research and advocacy are advocating and critiquing. <3
dismissing analysis pointing Agroecology and regenerative ag outright due to the grazing crowd’s exuberance is problematic.
Agroecology and regenerative ag are related concepts —“regen ag” as a term actively being coopted by industrial ag
Part of your complaint was we conflate multiple terms. In that clip she uses organic, regenerative, and agroecological interchangeably.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2fv9Yq0i_Q
Who is supposed to buy it?
People who care about animals and climate prefer vegan.
The others animal meat.