Comments on: TED Talk: How Chef Dan Barber Fell in Love With a Fish http://jcarrot.org/ted-talk-how-chef-dan-barber-fell-in-love-with-a-fish Jews, Food, and Contemporary Issues Mon, 21 May 2012 04:07:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Kennis Koldewyn http://jcarrot.org/ted-talk-how-chef-dan-barber-fell-in-love-with-a-fish/comment-page-1#comment-23768 Kennis Koldewyn Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:55:47 +0000 http://jcarrot.org/?p=11119#comment-23768 I wish that Mr. Barber had answered his final rhetorical question honestly: "Hey guy, I love pink flamingos. But how you gonna feed the world?" His first answer is that a "billion people will go hungry today [...] because of gross inequalities in distribution, not tonnage", which is true, but doesn't tell us anything about whether it would still be true under his "ecological model". His second answer is that every community has to feed itself, which of course is also true, but also dodges the question. Here's the real answer: http://whyarethingsfalling.blip.tv/file/1126921/ (Derrick Jensen on why cities aren't sustainable). I wish that Mr. Barber had answered his final rhetorical question honestly: “Hey guy, I love pink flamingos. But how you gonna feed the world?”

His first answer is that a “billion people will go hungry today [...] because of gross inequalities in distribution, not tonnage”, which is true, but doesn’t tell us anything about whether it would still be true under his “ecological model”.

His second answer is that every community has to feed itself, which of course is also true, but also dodges the question.

Here’s the real answer: http://whyarethingsfalling.blip.tv/file/1126921/ (Derrick Jensen on why cities aren’t sustainable).

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