Much of the rest of the world refuses to buy genetically modified foods and seeds, forcing industry and the U.S. government to reassess the patenting and fast track approval process for genetically modified organisms that they have sold the American public as wholesome and safe. It is that so many of the catalogs are marketing alternatives to the prevailing corporate paradigm, and that this market is the fastest growing, greenest, most sustainable, earth friendly and socially responsible segment of the economy. Slow food stresses quality over quantity and heightened awareness of the interconnected relationships of the food chain. An expanding awareness of how our food is produced, processed, and ultimately consumed determines what and how we eat. Food serves to connect us with each other, the earth, the cosmos, and ourselves.
Food is, after all, just stored sunshine.
This is what led to the development of PLANeT Food . As the play on words implies, PLANeT Food nourishes plants, yet it also plays a larger role in building and maintaining the matrix of life in the planet s soils. Only recently discovered and popularized as the crypto-biotic crust, the unseen world of soil microorganisms not only supports the growth of the higher plants, but serves as the architecture that holds the soil together as a foundation for all that grows. The importance of this cannot be overstated, since the soils are such a finite fraction of the earth, take such a long time to accumulate, and are under ever-increasing pressure to sustain the world s population. Holistic Resource Management , is a book by Alan Savory, the founder of the organization by the same name.