Purely plant food
Name of host: Eleisha C Newman
Who took part: Eleisha C Newman, Sweet Runing Water, Dirk Campbell
Main points of dicussion:
Lessons of experience, science and other soures of wisdom show that in the given order of creation choices need to be made in favour of pure plant food diets. Areas in which this can be shown include: potable water availability, land availability and its potential for degeneration or regeneration, soil fertilisers including human waste processes, climate change factors, sustainable energy sources and loss of oil, health and nutrition, spirituality and wellbeing, biodiversity and knowledge classification systems.
Questions arise in response to reasons in favour of pure plant food diets, which need answers:
- who, and how many people, are vegan/vegetarian/fruitarian?
- who would gladly be so but are not?
- what are the obstacles preventing people from being so?
- what nutritious crops could be grown in Lewes and district to sustain a nutritious diet for all?
- which plants that grow naturally in Lewes and district are edible
and which are poisonous?
- which plants can be eaten raw or with minimal use of energy/fuel/labour?
- how can the human strengths required for an agrarian/plant food culture be developed and sustained in time and over time?
Focus areas for the food planning group:
extensive knowledge about plants, their optimal growing requirements and their nutritional uses, values and dangers where they exist
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