Re: environmental ed

Crafty (rijtaylo@silver.ucs.indiana.edu)
Wed, 29 Dec 1993 18:26:14 -0500 (EST)

> Does anyone have knowledge or experience (especially fundraising
> experience) in environmental education as it relates to agriculture?
> If so, could you share it with me? Am I right in detecting a bias in
> favor of indigenous and native plants and wildlife on the part of most
> environmentalists, at the expense of the plants and animals that feed
> and clothe us?

No but I do have a little story for you. The native americans
considered maize to hold a special place in their culture. Why?
It could not propagate itself in the wild, it needed the human hand's
intervention if it was to grow. So the people depended on maize, maize
depended on the people. A mutualistic relationship. (i hate it when
people call only mutualism 'symbiosis'. Parasitism is symbiosis too!)

Told you it was short. Whether you can inflate it into
curriculum or money, I don't know.

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