There’s something very magical and wholesome about buying produce from a farmer’s market. Before you groan and threaten me of grandstanding, hear me out. When you buy vegetables, meat, or really most products from a grocery store, it most likely traveled hundreds of miles, packed into an 18-wheeler, before arriving and being beautifully arranged in front of you. The whole idea of buying locally grown produce is based on being comforted by the idea that you are getting quality products that are also incredibly sustainable. While some people have no issue blindly purchasing whatever rutabaga tickles their fancy, others, including myself, like to buy products with just a bit more forethought. I’ll let you get back to whatever it is you enjoy doing on a Monday, but try to keep an open mind about all of this, and consider finding your local farmer’s market and purchasing sustainable produce.
Even if you don’t carrot all, here’s what you missed in the news yesterday.
For The People
About a week or so ago, Sen. Kamala Harris let the world in on a secret that has since become public knowledge; she’s running for the Democratic presidential nomination in the upcoming 2020 election. Earlier this weekend, Harris held her first rally in her hometown of Oakland, California, where she dropped a pretty decently-sized truth bomb on the American people. Harris said that the “American dream and our American democracy are under attack and on the line like never before. We must answer a fundamental question: who are we as Americans? So, let’s answer that question — to the world, to each other, right here, right now. America, we are better than this.”
It doesn’t take a political scientist to recognize that Harris is calling out President Donald Trump for laying waste to true American democracy, and for being the reason we —as Americans — are struggling with our national identity. We’ll have to see if she continues with this underlying message throughout the campaign process.
Brexit Be Trippin’
If you haven’t heard the news, PM Theresa May failed to secure enough votes to pass Brexit — a deal that would allow the UK to essentially leave the European Union — and has since been trying to come up with some semblance of a plan to get her country back on track. According to recent reports, the British government is considering enacting martial law as well as declaring a state of emergency if no concrete plan comes about.
“The very need for the backstop in the first place was because of the UK’s red lines, that it wanted to leave the customs union and the single market as well as the European Union. Ireland has the same position as the European Union, I think, when we say that the backstop is part go a balanced package that isn’t going to change. The European Parliament will not ratify a withdrawal agreement without a backstop in it. It’s as simple as that.”
–Simon Coveney, Irish Tanaiste
