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==== Extract of the talk given during [[The Soft Protest, re-chewing & Digest|The Soft Protest, re-chewing & Digest]]'s dinner<br>in October 2019 at [http://www.corridorprojectspace.com/artfood/ Corridor project space] in Amsterdam. ==== | ==== Extract of the talk given during [[The Soft Protest, re-chewing & Digest|The Soft Protest, re-chewing & Digest]]'s dinner<br>in October 2019 at [http://www.corridorprojectspace.com/artfood/ Corridor project space] in Amsterdam. ==== | ||
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Following our talk with Corneel van Rijn, we decided to shift our perspective —the farmers’— to now reconsider these questions in relation to public demand and contemporary trends; such as for instance: the will to “eat healthy foods”, being “aware of environmental issues” or wanting to “have an ethic in regards to diet”. From this entry point, we have sketched three hypothetical scenarios of the evolution of dairy and cattle farming in the future. | "Following our talk with Corneel van Rijn, we decided to shift our perspective —the farmers’— to now reconsider these questions in relation to public demand and contemporary trends; such as for instance: the will to “eat healthy foods”, being “aware of environmental issues” or wanting to “have an ethic in regards to diet”. From this entry point, we have sketched three hypothetical scenarios of the evolution of dairy and cattle farming in the future. | ||
Considering that agriculture and food production touches almost every aspect of our society, this speculative exercise is, of course, debatable and easy to question in practice. We have tried, however, to take a consistent amount of touch points in consideration, in order to sketch the most accurate scenarios possible. | Considering that agriculture and food production touches almost every aspect of our society, this speculative exercise is, of course, debatable and easy to question in practice. We have tried, however, to take a consistent amount of touch points in consideration, in order to sketch the most accurate scenarios possible. | ||
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One question still needs to be answered to commonly address these 3 scenarios: the cost of the food. It could be argued, indeed, that the food production of these resilient models could only be accessible to the rich upper classes, which is quite true. But we also need to consider that, before the green revolution, food was sold at a much higher price. In large cities, like Amsterdam for instance, rent costs were much lower in relation to the percentage of money which had to be dedicated to food. One solution would be therefore to re-consider nutrition, by making use of smaller quantities of nutrient rich, expensive quality products rather than large quantities of cheap, nutrient poor ingredients. | One question still needs to be answered to commonly address these 3 scenarios: the cost of the food. It could be argued, indeed, that the food production of these resilient models could only be accessible to the rich upper classes, which is quite true. But we also need to consider that, before the green revolution, food was sold at a much higher price. In large cities, like Amsterdam for instance, rent costs were much lower in relation to the percentage of money which had to be dedicated to food. One solution would be therefore to re-consider nutrition, by making use of smaller quantities of nutrient rich, expensive quality products rather than large quantities of cheap, nutrient poor ingredients.” | ||
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