FFS 032 - The Last Acceptable Prejudice
For Food's Sake
English - July 10, 2018 15:25 - 34 minutes - 27.6 MB - ★★★★ - 3 ratingsFood Arts Education dialogue food sustainability Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
The urban-rural divide is more pronounced than ever. The 'last acceptable prejudice' - that against rural people and places - is not only real, it is destructive.
As in our politics, the debates around food and sustainability are increasingly polarised. Conventional agriculture is pitted against organic agriculture, vegans face-off against carnivores, urban city-dwellers clash with countrymen and women. How do we bridge these divides?
In this episode, we talk to Ash Bruxvoort about their story growing up as the daughter of a conventional farmer and a sustainable agriculture advocate.
Ash Bruxvoort is a writer and program coordinator at Women, Food and Agriculture Network. They grew up on a family farm outside of Des Moines, Iowa, where their father produces corn and soybeans. Their writing and work focuses on empowering women and gender non-conforming people to tell their stories about the urban-rural divide.
We discuss:
How the urban-rural divide shapes how we see politics and debates around sustainable agriculture Ash’s take, as a daughter of a conventional farmer, on sustainable agriculture How we address ‘the last acceptable prejudice’ : the prejudice against rural places and people (Wendell Berry)Links:
Women, Food and Agriculture Network Wendell Berry: The Unsettling of America Letters to a Young Farmer – Stone Barns Cener for Food and AgricultureYou may also like:
FFS 025 – Breaking bread with Paleo FFS 021 – My Beef with Veganism FFS 018 – Talking Sustainability with Rob GreenfieldThe urban-rural divide is more pronounced than ever. The 'last acceptable prejudice' - that against rural people and places - is not only real, it is destructive.
As in our politics, the debates around food and sustainability are increasingly polarised. Conventional agriculture is pitted against organic agriculture, vegans face-off against carnivores, urban city-dwellers clash with countrymen and women. How do we bridge these divides?
In this episode, we talk to Ash Bruxvoort about their story growing up as the daughter of a conventional farmer and a sustainable agriculture advocate.
Ash Bruxvoort is a writer and program coordinator at Women, Food and Agriculture Network. They grew up on a family farm outside of Des Moines, Iowa, where their father produces corn and soybeans. Their writing and work focuses on empowering women and gender non-conforming people to tell their stories about the urban-rural divide.
We discuss:
How the urban-rural divide shapes how we see politics and debates around sustainable agriculture Ash’s take, as a daughter of a conventional farmer, on sustainable agriculture How we address ‘the last acceptable prejudice’ : the prejudice against rural places and people (Wendell Berry)Links:
Women, Food and Agriculture Network Wendell Berry: The Unsettling of America Letters to a Young Farmer – Stone Barns Cener for Food and AgricultureYou may also like:
FFS 025 – Breaking bread with Paleo FFS 021 – My Beef with Veganism FFS 018 – Talking Sustainability with Rob Greenfield