75571_waters_alice.jpg"Food is destiny, all right; every decision we make about food has personal and global repercussions." By now it is generally conceded that the food we eat could actually be making us sick, but we still haven't acknowledged the full consequences--environmental, political, cultural, social and ethical--of our national diet.
These consequences include soil depletion, water and air pollution, the loss of family farms and rural communities, and even global warming. (Inconveniently, Al Gore's otherwise invaluable documentary An Inconvenient Truth has disappointingly little to say about how industrial food contributes to climate change.) When we pledge our dietary allegiance to a fast-food nation, there are also grave consequences to the health of our civil society and our national character.
“It’s strange when people talk about global warming, and don’t think about how we eat as a factor.”
- Launched “Edible Schoolyard” at Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School . The garden, where the students grow their lunch and learn that good food comes from the earth, not a vending machine. A second Schoolyard was launched last year in New Orleans, and, like everything Waters does, the program has grown organically, inspiring chefs like Rachael Ray and Jamie Oliver to start similar projects.
