Here's a new subject only tangentially related to the list:
Last June, a woman I met at a conference, after hearing
about my intended doctoral research here at UofA, suggested I read
"Celestine Prophecy." So I looked it up when I got out here only to
find that I'd need to do an ILL search to find a copy. It just
arrived this week from the Detroit Public Library! They have
classified it as fiction and I'm trying to find out if any or all of
it is a hoax. Do any of you know anything about it?
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Date: Thu, 27 Oct 1994 14:23:17 -0400
From: Deborah Rudacille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Regional consumption
Hello. I've been on the list for a couple of weeks but this is my
first post. I wanted to interject a note of caution into the local
eating issue. Although there are certainly great problems (ethical,
environmental and medical) with our current system of global food
production and distribution, I think that it is somewhat
naive/unrealistic to expect to turn the clock back to a local economy
model. If anything, the movement in this area (as in all others) is
to a global market system. The real challenge seems to me to lie in
making this global economy more equitable and environmentally sound.
The ideal of regional consumption is attractive, but not (barring an
environmental catastrophe, world war etc.) very likely to happen on
anything other than a personal level. Of course, personal choices do
ripple outward so who knows...
Deborah
