Organic movement is spreading :-)
Till a few years back, when I first started about getting organic food in my house, through an organisation called Navdanya, I was laughed at. They said it was another one of my raidcal and over idealistic, and ofcourse silly and unneccessary (creating an issue out of nothing) ideas.
Today, on a lazy Sunday, I went shopping in the Vasant Kunj market, and noticed that Fab India, Navdanya and Ki to Health, were selling organic goods in the same market. Mostly, all the goods were certified by international organic certification authorities.
The most exciting thing, however, was that Uttaranchal, has its own brand by the name Panchvati, and was selling Dals, Atta, Honey, Squashs, etc. Uttaranchal has been declared an Organic state, and this was bound to happen.
I casually asked the salesman at Ki to Health, whether people actually bought organic stuff (ofcourse if three stores are selling them, people ought to be buying it all), and he said "oh, ofcourse", which was actually quite comforting to me.
The Organic Food movement is catching on; middle class people are paying extra money, in an extremely price conscious market, to get some crap (read "chemical food") out of their lives.
Another very good thing happenning is that there are more and more products which one sees these days coming from farmer/worker co-operatives. This is a very healthy sign.
More initiatives and brands on the way, I am sure. Will Srijan Foundation be able to make a positive impact in this area, by creating farmer co-operatives throughout the country, and leveraging its business acumen and possibly a new brand, in marketing these nationally and internationally? Dreaming of this future reality now… 
The link between Mind and Social / Environmental-Issues.
The fast-paced, consumerist lifestyle of Industrial Society is causing exponential rise in psychological problems besides destroying the environment. All issues are interlinked. Our Minds cannot be peaceful when attention-spans are down to nanoseconds, microseconds and milliseconds. Our Minds cannot be peaceful if we destroy Nature.
Industrial Society Destroys Mind and Environment.
Subject : In a fast society slow emotions become extinct.
Subject : A thinking mind cannot feel.
Subject : Scientific/ Industrial/ Financial thinking destroys the planet.
Subject : Environment can never be saved as long as cities exist.
Emotion is what we experience during gaps in our thinking.
If there are no gaps there is no emotion.
Today people are thinking all the time and are mistaking thought (words/ language) for emotion.
When society switches-over from physical work (agriculture) to mental work (scientific/ industrial/ financial/ fast visuals/ fast words ) the speed of thinking keeps on accelerating and the gaps between thinking go on decreasing.
There comes a time when there are almost no gaps.
People become incapable of experiencing/ tolerating gaps.
Emotion ends.
Man becomes machine.
A society that speeds up mentally experiences every mental slowing-down as Depression / Anxiety.
A ( travelling )society that speeds up physically experiences every physical slowing-down as Depression / Anxiety.
A society that entertains itself daily experiences every non-entertaining moment as Depression / Anxiety.
FAST VISUALS /WORDS MAKE SLOW EMOTIONS EXTINCT.
SCIENTIFIC /INDUSTRIAL /FINANCIAL THINKING DESTROYS EMOTIONAL CIRCUITS.
A FAST (LARGE) SOCIETY CANNOT FEEL PAIN / REMORSE / EMPATHY.
A FAST (LARGE) SOCIETY WILL ALWAYS BE CRUEL TO ANIMALS/ TREES/ AIR/ WATER/ LAND AND TO ITSELF.
To read the complete article please follow either of these links :
PlanetSave
EarthNewsWire
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Comment by sushil_yadav — October 18, 2006 @ 2:29 am