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Loren Cardeli: Why I Stand With Small Farmers
Heartland Stories Radio
English - November 16, 2021 11:00 - 29 minutes - 39.9 MBHealth & Fitness Kids & Family farming sustainableagriculture food goodfoodmovement health kids pesticides publichealth socialjustice sustainability Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Loren Cardeli, Executive Director and co-founder of A Growing Culture, an organization that promotes ecological agriculture across the globe. Loren is a leader in a small but growing movement of farmer-centric organizations and has traveled around the world to help set up and run organic farms. Tune in to learn more about:
- His personal experiences and memories of his family dinner table;
- Why being heard is so important and why there are a lot of voiceless communities around the world;
- How the very ones that are feeding us are starving;
- Food waste, ethanol production, animal feed, corn - what is wrong with the current industrial agriculture in the US;
- About his organization A Growing Culture and their mission to support farmers to change the broken food system and their collective learning through farmer-to-farmer exchange;
- Why we have to change the view of how people see industrial agriculture and why the narrative and communication part are detrimental;
- Why the local food movement won't save the world;
To learn more about Loren's work go to: https://www.agrowingculture.org/.