Rebugging the Farm

Michael Olson’s Food Chain Radio Show #1286

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Should farmers rebug their farms?

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GUEST: Vicki Hird / CEO Alliance for Better Food and Farming and Author, Rebugging the Planet

My first site of Disneyland was a heartbreaker.   I was Montana boy sitting in the back of a bus on the way from the Long Beach Naval base to the San Diego Naval base when right there, midst the grey-brown smog rolling off I-5, was Disney’s signature Matterhorn.

Michael Olson Food Chain Radio – Rebugging the Farm

Having consumed a lot of Disney in my formative years, to the extent of once being smitten by the Mickey Mouse Club’s Annette Funicello, I had come to believe that Disney’s Matterhorn would somehow be a real deal, not a diminutive fiberglass fake!

Then later, after a date at Disneyland, I was overcome by the nihilistic belief that all of Disneyland’s attractions were fake.  Now unable to find any amusement in the fake attractions, I never bought another ticket to Disneyland.

I mention this failure, which admittedly was much to my detriment, because I see so much of our world be turned into synthetic fakery, including our food.  Look at that Impossible Burger in the grocer’s meat cooler.  It is not meat at all.  It is ground up plant matter glued together with patented chemical compounds so as to look and taste like meat.  It should be called “Disneyland Matterhorn Meat!”

While shopping around for ways of putting real back into the world, I was introduced to a book entitled “Rebugging the Planet” by the UK’s Vicki Hird.  Her proposal that we “rebug the planet” leads me to ask:

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