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Supermarket Shopping Makes a Whole Foods Lot of Zany Fun

Sybil Dessau of Fawlty Productions is the one who kept the camera (and me) rolling for the TEDxManhattan video even though I wasn't feeling well. She did a highly professional job under rather stressful conditions.

Now I'm rolling with laughter after watching this trailer she created for the movie American Shopper. I've had tears rolling down my cheeks even after watching it several times. It's worth a whole lot of tweets in my opinion.

I try to avoid using hyperbole, but to me it's not just funny, it's hilarious right from the opening scene. It's difficult to pick a favorite, but the young girl who wanted to know what her grandmother would do really got my attention with her dance. Who is your fav? 

Absolutely no criticism intended but I think this would have been a good show at the TEDxManhattan event. It tells a story about American supermarket life in the center aisles in a lighthearted but meaningful way. We could use some funny food in the often too-serious urban ag and food movement.

We are the inventors of the supermarket food and fast food society and we need to fix it. It's particularly unfortunate that we exported it all over the industrialized world. As we know, there's no eraser button next to the send button. So Ollie, now what are we gonna do about this mess?

American Shopper Trailer from Sybil Dessau on Vimeo.

 

BBC News - Rising Food Prices Increase Squeeze on Poor - Oxfam

The Oxfam report is more than disturbing. In my view, we in the U.S. do not pay enough attention to what is happening around the globe. It is likely that we will react only when our own food prices reach a point of severe personal pain.

I am not a doomer, homesteader type or alarmist but believe that it is a prudent and intelligent action to learn about personal urban food production using modern methods that do not involve land ownership or access to public land for in-ground growing.

via www.bbc.co.uk

Rising food prices are tightening the squeeze on populations already struggling to buy adequate food, demanding radical reform of the global food system, Oxfam has warned.

London » A Community Partners With A Supermarket to Grow Fresh Food on the Roof

Budgens' rooftop garden. Photograph: Guardian
Fresh vegetables grown on this rooftop micro farm by Food From The Sky (a non-profit organization) make a short trip downstairs to a Budgens supermarket in London. It can't be any more local than this.


Quick Facts About Food From the Sky, a rooftop micro farm

Founded by: former silversmith and art consultant Azul-Valerie Thome

Organization: Food From the Sky is a partnership between Budgens, a chain of supermarkets, The Positive Earth Project (a local social enterprise) and volunteers from the local community in Thornton, London.