Save the Maple Syrup: Eat More Pancakes?
Yesterday’s Dining Section featured a fascinating article about saving endangered species, by serving them for dinner. The marketplace is a powerful conservation tool, the article argues - if it’s being sold in the market, it’s not extinct.
One of the most interesting parts of the article was the accompanying interactive map that broke the country down into regions, by species (i.e. food). New York City falls into the Clambake Nation (not the Whitefish Nation?). Personally, I bioregionally identify a bit further north and west in the Maple Syrup Nation…
Click here (or on the map above) to find out about your region.
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3 Responses to “Save the Maple Syrup: Eat More Pancakes?”
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Rabbi Shmuel Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 3:53 pmas a member of the maple nation, I am constrained to point out that this is an important graphic - I had the privilege to have been asked to speak at a Tribal Land Climate Change Conference sponsored by the NWF some time ago. The many speakers spoke about their disappearing icons - the salmon, the bear etc. One of the slides showed the “migration” of the sugar maple to Canada from the US by 2040. I looked at my host and asked him if he had inserted that slide as a joke. He looked at me and aid “No, you’re in this thing too” Maple production has been on the declien steadily for quite some time largely due to a shortened season and uncertainty in tapping times. So it’s nice to see that there is some awareness of this out there. Great graphic!
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Leah Koenig Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 4:20 pmThanks for that story Shmuel. Unfortunately (and correct me if I’m wrong), I think that maple syrup might be one of the exceptions to the “save the species by eating it” theory. Climate change doesn’t listen to market forces.
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Zev Winicur Says:
May 1st, 2008 at 11:37 pmAs a former member of the wild rice nation, I am distressed that hand-harvested wild rice is in danger of disappearing. Hand harvesting is the most sustainable way of growing wild rice since much of the rice falls into the water and re-seeds the plants. Don’t let the Minnesota wild rice disappear! Make sure that you all go out and buy Minnsota-grown wild rice this weekend! I usually mix it with brown rice to make various pilafs (2 parts brown rice, one part wild rice, plus whatever fruit, nuts, or spices I feel like adding in).
