Greenhorns Gone Wild
The Greenhorns are a small nonprofit based in the Hudson Valley of New York geared towards supporting the youth-driven farming revolution that is sweeping our nation. They have made a documentary film about the phenomenon and are hoping to have it ready for the Sundance Film Festival application deadline. You can watch the trailer here.
To promote a new community space, they are hosting an event entitled "Goat Spit" that will feature urban gardening workshops, a live performance by Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Gospel Choir on a bike powered sound system, and much more. The event is also a fundraiser for the film. Below is a portion of the offical press release.
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Goat SPIT
Hosted by the Greenhorns, a benefit
Saturday, June 20
2 – 10pm
$50 sliding scale
513 Henry Street
Brooklyn, NY 11215
Corner Sackett/Henry
The Greenhorns Block Party is a community gathering and fundraising event for the Greenhorns. This grass-roots nonprofit hosts young farmer mixers, pirate seed swaps, barn dances and crop mobs on a regular basis-- all over the country. This one is particularly special.
On June 20, 2pm-10pm featuring:
+ The revival of 513 Henry Street’s antique Pharmacy in Brooklyn, NY
+ a bike powered goat rotisserie, sandwiches, salads, beer, coffee
+ bike powered sound system.
+ live performance by MAYORAL CANDIDATE Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Gospel Choir.
+ surprise cameos
+ presentations and workshop by young urban and rooftop farmers.
+ live animal demonstrations and tabling
On the eve of the solstice we'll spill out onto the sidewalk with haybales and tables, a community-scale potluck for progressive businesses and individuals to weave crowns of bittersweet with red thread, sew up a grocery bag, hob knob with advocacy groups, watch some films, buy some merchandise + plants + seeds, eat a sloppy sandwich, drink a coffee. Severine von Tscharner Fleming, acclaimed activist and director of the
Greenhorns, describes the event as “an easy, swing thru, summertime throwdown. With a surprising procession of cameo appearances, lovely collaborators and Awesome farm mayonnaise”
Participate. Celebrate. Donate!
Our websites:
www.thegreenhorns.net
www.serveyourcountryfood.net
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How is murdering a goat green?
This is the worst kind of faux environmentalism and it has to be exposed for what it is.
These people are roasting a dead goat using a bicycle powered spit. It's a horrifying use of a bicycle and contrary to everything we should support. There is nothing 'green' about slaughtering animals (or any part of the animal food industry) - no matter how 'local' and 'small' it is.
There is no such thing as a 'free range' animal raised for slaughter. It's not 'free' unless it can leave without having its throat slit. A 'grass fed cow' is still terrified as its herded into a cage where its neck is sliced open as it drowns in its own blood, while other cows stand by and watch, waiting their turn to die.
Contrary to what these hipsters would have you believe, eating 'local' bacon isn't any better than eating any other bacon - it's still a dead animal, an animal that was imprisoned for its whole life and then murdered. It's still the flesh of an intelligent, social being - a being capable of having relationships, of caring for children, a being that feels pain when its throat is slit and it's hung upside down with a hook in its leg.
A woman goes to jail for killing her puppy and making a belt out of it - but millions of animals are slaughtered to make your shoes, your belts, your burgers - and all of them have just as much right to live as that puppy.
I know, you might disagree. But here's the truth you'll eventually have to face: you're wrong. You're the person who said "as long as the slaves are comfortable and well fed and we let them have Sunday off to go to church, it's not so bad really, and after all, we can't release them, what would they do? how would they take care of themselves?" Those people were called welfarists and they just wanted to make the slaves living conditions better. When slavery ended, they suggested all slaves be sent to work-camps so they could be trained on how to work. The people who wanted to stop slavery were the abolitionists. Get on the right side of history, become an abolitionist today and refuse to support a culture that enslaves millions and murders them for the dinner table - just to satisfy the gluttonous appetite of America while the rest of the world starves.
Really, it's time to wake up.