We Learn What We Eat: Putting Local Food on the Table and in the Curriculum

Autor/in	Sacks, Howard L.
Titel	We Learn What We Eat: Putting Local Food on the Table and in the Curriculum
Quelle	In: Chronicle of Higher Education, 55 (2008) 13, (1 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-5982
Schlagwörter	Rural Areas; Rural Education; Agriculture; Food; Global Approach; Agricultural Occupations; Sustainable Development; Local Issues; Ohio + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Ländliche Erwachsenenbildung; Landwirtschaft; Lebensmittel; Globales Denken; Agriculture; Occupation; Beruf; Landwirtschaftlicher Beruf; Nachhaltige Entwicklung
Abstract	The town of Danville in Ohio was well known for its many turkey farms. Today there's barely a gobble to be heard around Danville, and the only talk of turkeys is at the annual Danville Turkey Festival, which has for decades celebrated the area's agricultural heritage. The local processing plant moved 200 miles north, into Michigan, in keeping with the trend toward centralization so characteristic of the current global food system. For the farmers, those 200 miles were the difference between profit and loss, and so turkey farming disappeared. In this article, the author discusses how the story of Danville's turkeys is a tale about the loss of rural character. Here, he describes three alternative approaches to the preservation of rural character. He also explains that his college, Kenyon College's Rural Life Center, offers the third approach: the creation of an alternative local market for area food products--a sustainable system that would put a greater share of the nearly $130-million that Knox Countians spend annually on food into the hands of local farmers. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10