FFS 032 - The Last Acceptable Prejudice

The urban-rural divide is more pronounced than ever. The 'last acceptable prejudice' - that against rural people and places - is not only real, it is destructive. As in our politics, the debates around food and sustainability are increasingly polarised. Conventional agriculture is pitted against organic agriculture, vegans face-off against carnivores, urban city-dwellers clash with countrymen and women. How do we bridge these divides? In this episode, we talk to Ash Bruxvoort about their story growing up as the daughter of a conventional farmer and a sustainable agriculture advocate. Ash Bruxvoort is a writer and program coordinator at Women, Food and Agriculture Network . They grew up on a family farm outside of Des Moines, Iowa, where their father produces corn and soybeans. Their writing and work focuses on empowering women and gender non-conforming people to tell their stories about the urban-rural divide. We discuss: How the urban-rural divide shapes how we see politics and debates around sustainable agriculture Ash's take, as a daughter of a conventional farmer, on sustainable agriculture How we address 'the last acceptable prejudice' : the prejudice against rural places and people (Wendell Berry) Links: Women, Food and Agriculture Network Wendell Berry: The Unsettling of America Letters to a Young Farmer – Stone Barns Cener for Food and Agriculture You may also like: FFS 025 – Breaking bread with Paleo FFS 021 – My Beef with Veganism FFS 018 – Talking Sustainability with Rob Greenfield

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FFS 032 - The Last Acceptable Prejudice is an episode from For Food's Sake by Matteo De Vos.

This episode is 34:15 long.

This episode was published on Jul 10, 2018.

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