{"id":237106,"date":"2024-06-27T14:02:43","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T14:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/27\/lets-make-cabbage-great-again\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:15:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:15:59","slug":"lets-make-cabbage-great-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/27\/lets-make-cabbage-great-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s make cabbage great again!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"main-text\">\n<p><iframe title=\"Let&#039;s make cabbage great again! Standard Time talk show S1E25\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gi-5EJbnYuY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As the European Parliamentary elections are nearing their end, so is this show\u2019s season. But have no fear; we\u2019ll be back in no time.<\/p>\n<p>In today\u2019s episode, we discuss how climate change affects food systems. Because, although we often talk of transit and other industries polluting, we don\u2019t seem to consider industrial farming as great a culprit as it really is. And it affects all of us.<\/p>\n<p>One study from 2022 found that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eitfood.eu\/news\/just-half-of-european-consumers-trust-the-food-system-reveals-pan-european-study\">less than half of European<\/a> consumers trust where their food comes from \u2013 and only 37% believe that their food is truly sustainable. Many are interested in organic produce and sustainable resources, but industrial farming doesn\u2019t prioritize these values\u2014neither at the corporate level nor at the policy level.<\/p>\n<p>The<a href=\"https:\/\/projects.research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu\/en\/horizon-magazine\/once-unthinkable-prospect-society-driven-wellbeing-gains-traction\"> EU has started to flirt with the idea of<\/a>\u00a0\u201cdegrowth\u201d\u00a0instead of \u201cgreen growth\u201d; experts advocate for replacing the current economic metrics, such as GDP, which are focused on abstract financial gain. Instead, we could use figures and factors that center society and allow for a more complex understanding of trade, industry and finances.<\/p>\n<p>Modern social and economic theories were largely built on the idea of a teleological path of progress, that is, the very false idea that humanity is moving in a particular direction along a linear line and that perpetual growth and expansion are the keys to great societies.<\/p>\n<p>Now, it doesn\u2019t take a PhD to see why this is a problematic idea: to start with, our resources aren\u2019t endless; importantly, human history isn\u2019t linear. Additionally, this concept views certain societies as more optimal and expects others to try to \u201ccatch up\u201d with the leaders, which ultimately traps them in a development limbo forever.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, we have reached a level of overproduction and overconsumption where we have more commodities than would be needed for the globe, but billions of people are living in extreme poverty, because we don\u2019t distribute wealth or resources fairly.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of this global insanity, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/2022\/06\/what-is-degrowth-economics-climate-change\/\">degrowth<\/a> promotes decreasing our global consumption and living off of fewer resources. Yes, that could mean paying a fairer price for your finely brewed coffee, which is currently produced by abused and exploited workers in Guatemala. It would also focus on shorter trade distances, local produce and positive interdependence between sectors.<\/p>\n<p>The current global trade systems create a lot of dependence, but these are rarely positive ones. Industrial farming is entirely reliant on fossil fuels, both for operating the heavy machinery that replaced agricultural workers and for heavily polluting agrochemicals such as fertilizers and pesticides.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of industrial farming, Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine has had severe consequences for the Arab world, as half of Ukraine\u2019s wheat production is exported there, leading to a sharp increase in the price of bread. Historically, such events have served as a catalyst for political upheaval in the region.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/a-new-arab-spring-thanks-to-the-ukraine-war\/a-61165023\"> In 2021,<\/a> the inflation of food products reached the same level that led to the Arab Spring.<\/p>\n<p>Some believe that this conundrum could allow grain producers from European countries, like Germany, to wield soft power in the region by exporting more advanced agricultural practices there.<\/p>\n<p>Food sovereignty has always been about controlling resources, and as long as they\u2019re not in the hands of the people who produce them, the fight for farmers\u2019 rights prevails. From the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-india-68476463\">renewed protests<\/a> in India to the ones against the EU\u2019s Green New Deal here in Europe, they expose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2024\/2\/25\/farmers-protests-in-europe-and-the-deadend-of-neoliberalism\">neoliberal agricultural models<\/a> that center economic competition over environmental protection.<\/p>\n<p>To angry farmers in Europe, it seems that the far-right are the only ones willing to listen, as they have been marching on the streets for months across Belgium, Germany, and Poland against the Green Deal\u2019s reformist policies that claim sustainability. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/angry-farmers-take-down-brussels-european-union-protest-election-2024\/\">Instead of protecting local farmers<\/a>, the EU responded to the needs of agribusinesses, causing upheaval and general distrust.<\/p>\n<p>On both ends of the left-right spectrum, a coaptation of farmers\u2019 struggles is evident. Less than four months before the EP elections, the far-right has managed to strategically infiltrate the movement through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/en\/opinion\/article\/2024\/02\/20\/the-european-far-right-opportunistically-supports-farmers_6542024_23.html\">Europhobia and anti-immigration rhetoric<\/a>, but this is far from new. Right-wing politicians have long had ties with agribusinesses, and this false claim to \u201cprotecting\u201d family farms <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmog.com\/2023\/10\/18\/mapped-the-deep-ties-between-big-ag-and-europes-right-wing-politicians\/\">comes with personal gain.<\/a> Who would\u2019ve thought that climate protection would serve as a great excuse to continue harming the environment?<\/p>\n<h3>Today\u2019s guests:<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iwm.at\/fellow\/tendai-ganduri\"><b>Tendai Ganduri<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a Zimbabwean scholar from the University of Witwaterstand in Johannesburg, South Africa. She has been awarded the Digital Humanism Fellowship from the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, where she is currently researching on how climate change is communicated on X, using Zimbabwe and South Africa as case studies. Ganduri explores the pluralities within human communities, and compares how citizens critique and\/or support their governments in relation to national and international events and platforms.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/czarne.com.pl\/katalog\/autorzy\/maciej-jakubowiak\"><b>Maciej Jakubowiak<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Dwutygodnik magazine, one of Eurozine\u2019s partner publications from Poland. He is an award-winning writer and essayist, and has been granted the Adam W\u0142odek Prize, amongst others. His publications include Hanka: A Career Story (Hanka.Opowie\u015b\u0107 o awansie, 2024), The Last Humans: Imagining the End of the World ( Ostatni ludzie. Wymy\u015blanie ko\u0144ca \u015bwiata , 2021), and Inevitable Plagiarism ( Nieuchronny plagiat , 2017). His Dwutygodnik essay<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dwutygodnik.com\/artykul\/9527-historie-ludowe-brzuch.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Folk Stories: The Paunch<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, explores the cultural and national history behind his family\u2019s relationship to food. Has been translated from Polish into English, and was published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/the-paunch\/\">Eurozine this week<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shakasalma.wordpress.com\/\"><b>Salma Shaka<\/b><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is a multi-media artist and researcher raised between Palestine, Cyprus, and the UAE. Her work tackles topics of land reclamation, indigenous imagination, and anti-colonial struggles in relation to feeding and foraging rituals from the Arab and Mediterranean regions. Food is central to her practice, as it transcends borders, fosters solidarities, and aids in digesting heavy topics on cultural preservation, famine, and systemic erasure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We meet them at the ERSTE Stiftung in Vienna.<\/p>\n<p>You can also enjoy our episodes in a podcast format on the Cultural Broadcasting Archive, or wherever you find your podcasts.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; width: 100%; height: 220px;\" src=\"https:\/\/cba.media\/668249\/embed?audio&amp;q=1\" width=\"100%\" height=\"220\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>R\u00e9ka Kinga Papp, editor-in-chief<br \/>Merve Akyel, art director<br \/>Szilvia Pint\u00e9r, producer<br \/>Zs\u00f3fia Gabriella Papp, digital producer<br \/>Salma Shaka, writer-editor<br \/>Priyanka Hutschenreiter, project assistant<\/p>\n<h3><b>Management<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>Hermann Riessner, managing director<br \/>Judit Csik\u00f3s, project manager<br \/>Csilla Nagyn\u00e9 Kardos, office administration<\/p>\n<h3><b>OKTO Crew<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>Senad Hergi\u0107, producer<br \/>Leah Hochedlinger, video recording<br \/>Marlena Stolze, video recording<br \/>Clemens Schmiedbauer, video recording<br \/>Richard Brusek, sound recording<\/p>\n<h3><b>Postproduction<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>Milan Golovics, dialogue editor<br \/>N\u00f3ra Ruszkai, video editor<br \/>Istv\u00e1n Nagy, post production<\/p>\n<h3><b>Art<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>Victor Maria Lima, animation<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tXDcB6ExCcA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cornelia Frischauf, theme music<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><b>Captions and subtitles<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>Julia Sobota\u00a0 closed captions, Polish and French subtitles; language versions management<br \/>Farah Ayyash\u00a0 Arabic subtitles<\/p>\n<h3><b>Hosted by<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.erstestiftung.org\/de\/\">ERSTE Stiftung<\/a>, Vienna<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sources:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eitfood.eu\/news\/just-half-of-european-consumers-trust-the-food-system-reveals-pan-european-study\">Less than half of European consumers trust the food system, reveals pan-European study<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/projects.research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu\/en\/horizon-magazine\/once-unthinkable-prospect-society-driven-wellbeing-gains-traction\">Once unthinkable, the prospect of society driven by wellbeing gains traction<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/2022\/06\/what-is-degrowth-economics-climate-change\/\">Degrowth \u2013 what\u2019s behind the economic theory and why does it matter right now?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/a-new-arab-spring-thanks-to-the-ukraine-war\/a-61165023\">A new Arab Spring, thanks to Ukraine war?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-india-68476463\">Farmers\u2019 protest: March to restart amid tight security at Delhi\u2019s borders<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2024\/2\/25\/farmers-protests-in-europe-and-the-deadend-of-neoliberalism\">Farmers\u2019 protests in Europe and the deadend of neoliberalism<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/angry-farmers-take-down-brussels-european-union-protest-election-2024\/\">Meet the \u2014 really \u2014 angry farmers coming to take down Brussels<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/en\/opinion\/article\/2024\/02\/20\/the-european-far-right-opportunistically-supports-farmers_6542024_23.html\">European far right opportunistically supports farmers<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.desmog.com\/2023\/10\/18\/mapped-the-deep-ties-between-big-ag-and-europes-right-wing-politicians\/\">Mapped: The Deep Ties Between Big Ag and Europe\u2019s Right-Wing Politicians<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurozine.com\/lets-make-cabbage-great-again-2\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=lets-make-cabbage-great-again-2\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] As the European Parliamentary elections are nearing their end, so is this show\u2019s season. 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