tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2353513732326612618.post5178985343073867404..comments2022-05-13T12:43:56.869-07:00Comments on Electric Green: The Essential Apocalypse SkillsetNaomi Sladehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00346875547024218975noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2353513732326612618.post-64824874334727371702013-02-06T01:35:32.535-08:002013-02-06T01:35:32.535-08:00Thought about this some more so amended it!
This...Thought about this some more so amended it! <br /><br />This is very true and one should indeed be a cautious forager, to survive. <br /><br />But what troubles me is that people could consider a fruit tree an unexpected place to find tree fruit.<br /><br />I think there is a real issue with people being many degrees removed from the origin of the things that they put in their mouths and being blindly trusting of the newly conventional suppliers of food. The horsemeat-in-burger scandal illustrates that beautifully – packed, sanitised, all nastiness executed a comfortably long way away: yet it is not what it purports to be. (Vegetarians are still laughing).<br /><br />If people are so detached that they don’t know food, they won’t know poison either and that is a bad place to be, although rich with possibilities for Darwin Awards. On the one hand I know an eminent horticulturist who has a nibble of virtually everything in his garden to see how it goes. On the other, I was reading in Kew magazine the other day about a plant that ‘trains’ rodents distribute seeds without damaging them. Bite the seeds and they get a mouth of mustard oil so they don’t do it twice, eating the fruit and spitting out the pips. Are we, with our learned ultra-conservatism, smarter than a mouse with a full tummy?<br /><br />One can miss out on a lot of casual joy if one is equally scared of cherry plum and cherry laurel. In our past I think that there would always have been one pioneering monkey that would have a nibble while the others watched, and if he seemed ok they’d eat the food too. But now the early filters of ‘this one good, this one bad’, ‘eat sloes not briony’ seem to be missing, replaced by a widespread societal fear. And, as far as our society goes, this it is a state of affairs that, on an evolutionary level, makes the individuals concerned less adaptively fit.<br /><br />xx<br />Naomi Sladehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00346875547024218975noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2353513732326612618.post-89946058806534746102013-02-05T03:22:29.675-08:002013-02-05T03:22:29.675-08:00My goodness, I do love these debates! It's all...My goodness, I do love these debates! It's all about connecting with nature isn't it? Going beyond the superficial (packaged foods) to find whats real. Isn't this a metaphor for so much in society anyway...? <br />alitexAlitexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03570307127469818256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2353513732326612618.post-44388466355313449942013-02-03T03:01:04.255-08:002013-02-03T03:01:04.255-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Naomi Sladehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00346875547024218975noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2353513732326612618.post-74670028898297987862013-02-02T11:47:48.171-08:002013-02-02T11:47:48.171-08:00Ummm...it may be that the human race survived its ...Ummm...it may be that the human race survived its foraging, exploratory past by being a little cautious about what it put in it's mouth if it didn't expect to find food in the place it appeared?<br /><br />Isn't that perhaps the biggest skill we need to encourage our children to have if they are to survive the world's apocalypse ?<br /><br />Mind you - encouraging your friend to try a little nibble is possibly the way to exercise that caution.....?<br /><br />XXXXXXAnne Warehamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13102518926229038553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2353513732326612618.post-76792598275906348112013-02-02T10:22:18.830-08:002013-02-02T10:22:18.830-08:00Hello Naomi,
A very enjoyable read which struck ...Hello Naomi, <br /><br />A very enjoyable read which struck several chords with me. <br /><br />Best wishesPaul Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11857958003177118660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2353513732326612618.post-67625404376662781982013-02-01T10:51:55.164-08:002013-02-01T10:51:55.164-08:00Pleased to be y'colleague...Pleased to be y'colleague...Mark Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04203230703954814159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2353513732326612618.post-70784003806122229292013-02-01T10:21:03.142-08:002013-02-01T10:21:03.142-08:00Oh God please bring back common sense ! Thank you ...Oh God please bring back common sense ! Thank you for this.Paul Steerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16934578411450049838noreply@blogger.com