SCPT Agriculture Video
The SCPT video commitee and the agriculture committee joined forces to produce this short film that investigates some ideas of how agriculture will fit in to an overall plan for the Southlands. The film was premiered at the October 20 Open House.
Comments
Representing "conventional
Representing "conventional agriculture" on the Southlands with a picture of a crop-duster is misleading fear-mongering. Why not use a picture of the dairy farm that occupied those lands for so many years?
Fear Mongering?
I looked at the video as well. I think the crop duster is a metaphor for industrial farming. Nothing more.
Although dairy cows are pretty to look at, like a cornfield, the dairy industry is not a squeaky clean agricultural activity....most aren't. E-coli, BCE, doxins, staff, blah blah blah.
I suppose the video could have shown time lapsed shots of fertilizers leeching in to the water table and feeding the wetlands with toxic crapola. That would have been more appropriate for this neck of the woods.
If you want to represent
If you want to represent farming on the Southlands any image of actual farming past or present would be accurate. As for the toxic wetlands and such, do you have any evidence of this happening on the site or is this just more fear-mongering?
How on Earth anyone can see
How on Earth anyone can see fear-mongering in this video is beyond me. You must be paranoid, Dave.
The video was clearly aimed at setting out the concept of an Agricultural Land Trust owned and operated by the community of Tsawwassen. This Land Trust would protect the land from ever being developed in a better way than the ALR has done for other farm land in the Lower Mainland. Furthermore, it would provide a means to recycle developed land as it became available in blocks back into agricultural activities by developing a denser type of housing and restoring the fingers of the farm right into the community.
What an incredible concept.