A CHEAP, HEALTHY &
ETHICAL Diet

…without even worrying about our future or that of the coming generations, and about the very same planet from which, we are drawing all the reserves created in millions of years. The Earth is suffering from unscrupulous human activities. We closed our eyes, when farmers were forced to turn their backs on millenarian agricultural traditions; we traded genuine flavors for “fakes”, produced by so-called conventional agriculture, doped by too much fertilizer, too much irrigation, too many chemicals such as pesticides, insecticides; too much mechanization to be able to obtain competitive prices and an abundance that we have always dreamed of. We have been passive spectators when the same thing, for the same reasons, has been done to the breeders; we bartered the less but good, for the much more and a very clear ‘who-cares-about-the-rest’. We made no noise, when farms became a concentration camp for animals, sometimes without a day of sunlight in their short lives, fattened by altered feed, as long as the Sunday lunch never lacked the very traditional roast. In just 40 years, due to these practices, water reserves are scarce, the productivity of the soil is damaged after repeated chemical treatments, the air we breathe and the water we drink contain residues of each of the errors described. Last but not least, we have to consider also how we abuse the producer countries of the developing world, and habitats stolen from their legitimate owners through deforestation.
All of this can come to an end: I will show you which paths to take.