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<div>Exerpt:<font face="Georgia" size="-5"> Recently, the paywalled
site PoliticoPro reported that the US Secretary of Agriculture wants
"farmers and agricultural interests to come up with a single
definition of sustainability in order to avoid confusing the public
with various meanings of the term in food and production
methods."</font></div>
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We agree with Secretary Tom Vilsack that the word
"sustainability" is meaningless to consumers and the public.
It's overused, misused and it has been shamelessly co-opted by
corporations for the purpose of greenwashing.</font></div>
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But rather than come up with one definition for the word
"sustainable" as it refers to food and food production
methods, we suggest doing away with the word entirely. In its place,
as a way of helping food consumers make conscious, informed decisions,
we suggest dividing global food and farming into two categories:
regenerative and degenerative.</font></div>
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>http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/33659-from-sustainable-to-rege<span
></span>nerative-the-future-of-food</div>
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