The Rural Voice, 1990-08, Page 31possible. Diversity is an issue of
preserving the stock of genetic re-
sources. Balance includes the
concepts of sustainability and human
justice.
Kneen, a theologian and econ-
omist, was also, for 15 years, a sheep
farmer in Nova Scotia. Active in
farm politics, he began publishing
The Ram's Horn, a monthly news-
letter of food system analysis, with
his wife Cathleen in 1980.
The Ram's Horn, which circulates
as far as Peru and Thailand, appears
11 times a year. Subscriptions are
$12 annually from The Ram's Horn,
125 Highfield Road, Toronto, Ontario,
M4L 2V4. A recent issue contained
a critical discussion of the federal
government's policy paper, Growing
Together.
Kneen also has a half-time contract
with the Anglican Church for his rural
crisis work, and is now organizing the
Toronto Food Policy Council, set up
by Toronto City Council through the
Board of Health. The council pro-
poses to look at food policy as part of
health care, and will be considering
such questions as local marketing and
such projects as a school feeding pro-
gram.
Kneen's next book project, he
says, will be a study of the "social
agenda of the seed" — how, in short,
the biotechnological development of
seed (in this case, canola) may reflect
the corporate agenda.
There are many fronts on which
people concerned about the system
can work, Kneen says. As an alter-
native to the centralized power of
multinationals, for example, Kneen
cites community accomplishments
such as the OntarBio organic grain
marketing co-op in Durham, Ontario.
And he cites the Bruce County Fed-
eration of Agriculture, which has in-
vested time and energy in independ-
ently formulating policy goals for
agriculture, as an example of a group
that avoids being an instrument of
Canada's power brokers.
Kneen says his work has not made
him cynical. "Who knows what's
possible? I'll be damned if I do."
Nor is he an idealist, he says.
"There is nothing more utopian," he
adds, "than thinking the present
system is viable."0
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