Elle,
The Chinese fish proverb that you paraphrased has many merits, but it also has
limitations. What is the good of having a (wo)man who now knows how to fish,
but cannot afford a fishing pole and/or has no access to a place to fish? As
someone who has many years experience in community food, nutrition and
gardening for low-income youth and families, I can attest that there are
numerous instances where my stretching of this ancient proverb has real world
applications. For example:
1. Teaching someone how to cook nutritiously when they do not have a
stove.
2. Teaching someone to garden who has no access to land.
3. Teaching someone to shop well on a limited budget but there are no
supermarkets in their neighborhood.Improving and expanding education is
necessary, but is not sufficient. Our economic system needs to change.
Respectfully,
Steven
Steven M. Garrett, PhC, MS, RD
Food Geographer
"Will work for food issues"
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From: Eadams <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>; the john doe experience
<[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, January 6, 2009 9:35:29 AM
Subject: Re: [Community_garden] communitty supported agricultture
Instead of giving money to the poor why not give them the education they need
to support themselves. Teaching them to fish is the sustainable way, not
giving them fish. They can then start their own businesses and help others.
Elle
--- On Tue, 1/6/09, the john doe experience <[email protected]> wrote:
From: the john doe experience <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Community_garden] communitty supported agricultture
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Date: Tuesday, January 6, 2009, 12:34 AM
your time would be better spent giving money to the poor. im not even
slightly phased, lets talk about this again in five years.
capitalistpigs still eat their own. i never attacked csa's. pay
attention.the milwaukee project coordinator sited limited space as a
reason to charge alot of money, which equals inflation. go get some
mental preperation H before you start arguing with me. people who
defend themselves like this sound guilty
peace,love and happiness,
me
On 1/5/09, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> I know, I should know better than to add to inflammatory posts such as
> these, but just can't read any more without putting my two cents in.
>
> Sir,
> It might surprise you to know that I read books and the list serve in the
> winter months.
> Your comments about the Milwaukee project as well as CSA's are
almost as
> inflammatory as those you wrote about the "capitalist pigs".
Why wouldn't you
> expect those who support them to jump to the defense of the CSA's?
>
> As for those capitalist pigs, one of them continues to sign my paycheck
> which allows me to spend the rest of my time in my veggie garden.
Support from
> this capitalist pig has also allowed me to start veggie classes in the
growing
> months. Do I charge for those classes? You bet, is that capitalism,
most
> likely. Do I make sure that the fiscally impaired folk can afford them,
you
> bet.
>
> Since you admittedly have little information on the Milwaukee project
why
> jump to the negative conclusions you have asserted most of this day?
Perhaps
> they do not reply as they are too busy living the 'let all be fine
and well
> life' instead of witting about it.
>
> Yes, lets do try a little more peace and harmony. Classism, so closely
> related to Racism, lets try to keep it all out of the garden!
>
> Just another peaceful hippie trying to talk her walk!
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