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The Future of Yoga.
...or lack thereof.
An Analogy.
“Food has changed more in the last 50 years than in the prior 10,000.” ~ Michael Pollan
Up until the 1940s or so, food was food—and had been food for, say, farrrrr longer than 5,000 years.
We cultivated varieties of apples, etc.—so that they’d be delicious and healthy and hardy (and, hearty). After Dubyadubya Two, however, chemical warfare companies needed to find a way to make money in peacetime…remarkably, companies (cough: Monsanto!) dedicated to killing and poison transitioned into fertilizer and, since, 2000 or so, genetically-modified foods.
Where only 50 years ago there were, say, 100 varieties of easily-accessible tomatoes at your friendly local market stand, now we have, say, just three in your average grocery store.
The Irish Potato Famine happened ’cause the crop was vulnerable, it all got killed all at once by one damn blight. We’re setting ourselves up for this again on an epic scale: this time, all food, everywhere, in its newly homogenized form, is vulnerable to virus or disease.
And food, of course, is the basis of all life, health, happiness, business, mortgages, jobs. You know: everything.
Getting to the point at hand...(click here for rest of article if so inclined).
~  Waylon Lewis
editor-in-chief, host
elephantjournal.com, Walk the Talk Show with Waylon Lewis
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