[BCFSN] Fwd: We need to pay farmers ... to protect nature & Where they grow our junk food

Fri Sep 8 01:25:12 EDT 2017



> received from Rick Balfour
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>> From: Lloyd Helferty <lhelferty at gmail.com <mailto:lhelferty at gmail.com>>
>> Date: September 5, 2017 1:17:34 PM PDT
>> To: ADAM CHIARAVALLE <chiaraam at mcmaster.ca <mailto:chiaraam at mcmaster.ca>>
>> Cc: Muriel Andreae <mandreae at scrca.on.ca <mailto:mandreae at scrca.on.ca>>, kiruba.krishnaswamy at utoronto.ca <mailto:kiruba.krishnaswamy at utoronto.ca>, Metta Spencer <mspencer at web.net <mailto:mspencer at web.net>>, Olga Puzanova <puzanovaoo at gmail.com <mailto:puzanovaoo at gmail.com>>, Bryan Gilvesy <bryan at yuranch.com <mailto:bryan at yuranch.com>>, Harriet Friedmann <harriet.friedmann at utoronto.ca <mailto:harriet.friedmann at utoronto.ca>>, Murray.Fulton at usask.ca <mailto:Murray.Fulton at usask.ca>, "Ralph Martin (Guelph U)" <rcmartin at uoguelph.ca <mailto:rcmartin at uoguelph.ca>>
>> Subject: Re: We need to pay farmers ... to protect nature & Where they grow our junk food
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>> Thank you for sending this along, Adam.
>> 
>> I also agree, "farmers alone can't shoulder the expense of caring for the environment".
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>>     "Until society gets in their mind that they have to pay to get these farms sustainable ..." 
>> Unfortunately, as David Jenkins says, "it's a massive challenge to turn families off processed food and toward fruits, vegetables and grains".
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>>  Thus, one of the aims of the "Climate Smart Food" Programme will also be to help make, "healthy food cheaper than junk food".
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>>  A tall order, but I believe that it should be possible -- by providing support for farmers who grow good food in an environmentally sustainable manner ~ hopefully also assisted in this endeavour through focused public policy (that creates and emphasizes, "an official good food policy") -- similar to the Alternative Land Use Services (ALUS) program, but that would instead pay farmers [through the Ontario Cap-and-Trade program <http://environmentaldefence.ca/2017/06/13/second-success-ontarios-cap-trade-makes-grade>] for doing the simple deed of "sequestering carbon" (i.e., becoming so-called 'Carbon Farmers') by undertaking various techniques that many people refer to as, "regenerative agriculture".
>> CC: Muriel Andreae, co-chair of the Sydenham River Recovery Team 
>> Bryan Gilvesy, Norfolk County eco-farmer and Chair, Norfolk ALUS Pilot Project @ Y U Ranch
>> 460 Plowmans Line, Tillsonburg, Ontario
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>> Harriet Friedman, University of Toronto
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>> Murray Fulton, University of Saskatchewan agricultural economics expert
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>> Dr. Ralph Martin, Sustainable Agriculture Chair, Guelph U. (Formerly with the Organic Agriculture Centre of Canada (OACC) @ Nova Scotia Ag College| NSAC).  Dr. Martin's teaching and research focuses on agroecology and organic production.
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>> Note: Ralph was also involved in the original "Canadian Carbon Farming Initiative" (CFI) that was launched in late 2011 by myself and Richard Balfour (Vancouver) -- with the help of Barry Husk, the President of BlueLeaf Inc. in Quebec and Dr. Brad Bass @ the Centre for Environment, University of Toronto ... and a [former] member of our original "CURRENTS" team that pre-dated the Community Sustainability Working Group <https://www.facebook.com/groups/climatesmartfood/> (CoSWoG) of Science for Peace.
>> Regards,
>> Lloyd Helferty, Engineering Technologist 	
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>> 
>> Think big and don't listen to people who tell you it can't be done. Life’s too short to think small.
>> — TIM FERRISS
>> On 2017-09-01 12:28 PM, ADAM CHIARAVALLE wrote:
>>> http://www.margaretwebb.com/apples_to_oysters/2009-10-11_Toronto_Star_Where_they_grow_our_junk_food.pdf <http://www.margaretwebb.com/apples_to_oysters/2009-10-11_Toronto_Star_Where_they_grow_our_junk_food.pdf>
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>>> On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 12:28 PM, ADAM CHIARAVALLE <chiaraam at mcmaster.ca <mailto:chiaraam at mcmaster.ca>> wrote:
>>> http://www.margaretwebb.com/apples_to_oysters/2009-10-10_Toronto_Star_We_need_to_pay_farmers.pdf <http://www.margaretwebb.com/apples_to_oysters/2009-10-10_Toronto_Star_We_need_to_pay_farmers.pdf>
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