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Amid a growing food crisis, this morning workers from the City of Toronto were ordered by City of Toronto Parks Director Richard Ubbens that all live plants and food be removed from the People's Peas Garden in Queens Park. They were ordered to take the plants and food to the dump and lay sod overtop of this most beautiful free community food garden, without warning, without a chance to remove the rare heirloom plant species or harvest the food.
The garden was planted by Occupy Gardens and allies on May 1st, in defense of local and global food security. While the garden has been growing undisturbed for nearly 5 months, with the help of hundreds in the community, the city deliberately decided to have it removed upon the eve of the Autumn Jam: A Harvest Party and celebration of sharing, community and free local food, which is happening tomorrow from 12-6pm at the garden in Queens Park (northwest section).
The reason? The people did not have permission to grow free food on public land.
Originally posted by dontreally
reply to post by dainoyfb
lol, we have no growing food crisis, I have no idea what the OP meant by that.
But that doesn't mean a food crisis isn't on the horizon. For everyone on our wonderful North American continent.
The US with the failed crops this year contributes to it and Canada having a crappy growing season as well.
We are being warned about shortages and rising prices at the super markets are already starting.
Originally posted by masqua
Caption:
"We'll fix those bicycle ridinghippiesSENSIBLE PEOPLEwho think they can grow their own beans on city property, won't we Doug?"
"Yeah, Rob, we'll fix 'em."
"Mwhu huh ha ha ha ha" * choke *gasp*
Originally posted by dontreally
reply to post by jude11
The US with the failed crops this year contributes to it and Canada having a crappy growing season as well.
I thought the wetness of late July and August made up for the dryness of the early summer??
I know the early summer really screwed up the natural growing seasons of many plants; for instance, my cherry tree in the backyard didn't flower because of the bizarre weather patterns in March and April.
We are being warned about shortages and rising prices at the super markets are already starting.
I didn't know that. My brother usually keeps up on these things. He hadn't told me anything about that.
Food is so plentiful in Canada that even our garbage cans are full of it. We throw away 40 per cent of our edibles every year according to most recent estimates.
The amount of food wasted in the United States is staggering. In 2010, more than 34 million tons of food waste was generated, more than any other material category but paper. Food waste accounted for almost 14 percent of the total municipal solid waste stream, less than three percent of which was recovered and recycled in 2010. The rest —33 million tons— was thrown away, making food waste the single largest component of MSW reaching landfills and incinerators.
In 1997, in one of the few studies of food waste, the Department of Agriculture estimated that two years before, 96.4 billion pounds of the 356 billion pounds of edible food in the United States was never eaten. Fresh produce, milk, grain products and sweeteners made up two-thirds of the waste.