>From: "Michele Gale-Sinex/CIAS, UW-Madison" <mgs@aae.wisc.edu>
>To: sanet-mg@amani.ces.ncsu.edu
>Subject: Re: Help! Definition and catch-phrases needed!
>Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 14:39:59 -0500
>
>Howdy, all--
>
>> I am putting together a brochure for our regional sustainable ag.
>> group. (SAFE - Sustainable Agriculture for Everyone). I need a
>> definition of sustainable agriculture that the average person can
>> understand that isn't too long.
>
>Here's the one we use in our CIAS publication "The Power Eater's
>Guide to Organic and Sustainable Food":
>
>"Sustainable agriculture includes any agricultural practice that
>strives to support the environmental, social, economic, or
>intergenerational viability of farming, farm communities, and the
>food system."
>
>This is in a little list of definitions, and it's followed by
>
>"The food system is the entire system of production, processing,
>marketing, transportation, packaging, preparation, consuming, waste
>management, and other activities around food."
>
>
>Yeah, Greg, various folks with Ph.D.s have pointed out that somebody
>could argue with these definitions till Tinky Winky marries Jerry
>Falwell with Barney officiating...but pish and piddle. The point is
>to help people think about sustainable ag. Not to make them feel like
>they can't think about it without getting into a major argument. In
>our not so humble opinion.
>
>I also like to remind people that the word "sustainable" comes from
>the Latin /sub-/ + /tenere/, meaning to support or to hold up from
>below.
>
>Or as the Earth First!ers say: We stand for what we stand on.
>
>
>peace
>misha
>
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>Michele Gale-Sinex, communications manager
>Center for Integrated Ag Systems
>UW-Madison College of Ag and Life Sciences
>Voice: (608) 262-8018 FAX: (608) 265-3020
>http://www.wisc.edu/cias/
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