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The “Lalita Sookhee” Our bible to Mauritian cuisine. Don’t leave the country without this.
Got reminded this week of MTV’s Chai Boy on my fb wall…and Yeh Jawaani is still stuck in my head…
Chai SWAG.
Adding the evolutionary twist to the argument is convincing. Fighting the instinct is the real problem now that meat is available at affordable prices at any time of the day. All of this happened within 50 years and our species hasn’t got the time to adapt to this excess of meat.
Because evolution is a slow process, this revolutionary change has had zero impact on the primal urge that screams, “Listen, dummy, if you can find meat you’d better eat it, because who knows when you’ll eat it again!” At some point our bodies may adapt to consuming unlimited quantities of meat or — a better alternative — our minds will crave less. Right now, primal urge and modern availability form a deadly combo.
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We can’t afford to wait to evolve.
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I’ve been particularly interested by the way African soils are being sold to other countries right under the nose of starved populations. Mauritius too is among the buyers.
Among the principal destinations were Ethiopia and Sudan, countries where millions of people are being sustained with food from the U.N. World Food Program. That the governments of these two countries are willing to sell land to foreign interests when their own people are hungry is a sad commentary on their leadership. By the end of 2009, hundreds of land acquisition deals had been negotiated, some of them exceeding a million acres. A 2010 World Bank analysis of these “land grabs” reported that a total of nearly 140 million acres were involved — an area that exceeds the cropland devoted to corn and wheat combined in the United States. Such acquisitions also typically involve water rights, meaning that land grabs potentially affect all downstream countries as well. Any water extracted from the upper Nile River basin to irrigate crops in Ethiopia or Sudan, for instance, will now not reach Egypt, upending the delicate water politics of the Nile by adding new countries with which Egypt must negotiate.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy — the reigning president of the G-20 — is proposing to deal with rising food prices by curbing speculation in commodity markets. Useful though this may be, it treats the symptoms of growing food insecurity, not the causes, such as population growth and climate change. The world now needs to focus not only on agricultural policy, but on a structure that integrates it with energy, population, and water policies, each of which directly affects food security.
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If we cannot accelerate the shift to smaller families and stabilize the world population sooner rather than later, the ranks of the hungry will almost certainly continue to expand. The time to act is now — before the food crisis of 2011 becomes the new normal.
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That’s me 2 years ago having my dholl-puri bite as I landed in Mauritius. I hope to re-enact that pose soon. Holidays, we’re almost there!
How to feed the world?
a film directed by Denis van Waerebeke for the « Bon appétit » exhibition,
aimed mainly at the kids aged 9 to 14.
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The Last Bite
This evening I read ‘The Last Bite,’ a critic on the world food system by Bee Wilson, and I highly recommend that you read it all. By comparing Malthus’ essay of 1798 with today’s food crisis, and by analyzing recent books by authors like Michael Pollan, Raj Patel and Paul Roberts, the writer presented a bleak future for the ever-growing world population and its demands. Here’s how I summarize it.
- We eat too much, too much of the wrong things - above all, meat.
- Our stomach is no more ‘inelastic’ with the Western diet; it has learnt to grow as a balloon. And new emerging economies like India and China are eating this way too now.
- Today’s food is less tasty and less nutritious, from the ‘red tennis balls’ that have replaced our tomatoes to the crumbly chicken meat kept artificially juicy with salts and phosphates, to the toxin laden salmon.
- The meat industry, whether cattle, poultry or fish, is damaging the environment and our health…and we all know that. The ‘poop lagoons’ is something new for me though.
- The present crisis has been created by overproduction rather than underproduction; now we have more overweight people than starving people.
- Cheap food is a major problem intoxicating the consumers and killing farmers at the same time.
- The apparent abundance of choice in the supermarket is a mere illusion. Aren’t we eating the same vegetables every time? Isn’t there soy oil in almost all products?
- The global manufacturers and wholesalers have an interest in continuing to manipulate our desires, feeding our illusions of choice, stoking our colossal hunger.
- Monoculture must be abandoned; the Cuban method might be a better solution.
As Michael Pollan says ‘Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.’ Eat food, not ‘foodish’ stuff, don’t overeat (eat till you’re full, not till the TV show is over) and reduce meat consumption. That should be a great effort on the individual basis, and a good start if we want to radically change the food system. He did a talk about his latest book ‘In Defense of Food’ at Authors@Google. Find some time to watch it.
