Food security has been on people's minds lately. You see it in the newspapers all the time, in positive and negative lights:
The Enviropig
BC company seeks approval for gene-modified apple
Cheese recalled due to listeria
Mad cow, e. coli
Large-scaled wine shipments from New Zealand versus small truckloads of wine from Ontario, which is better? For the people? For the air?
Michael Schmidt acquitted of all charges in raw-milk case
The quiet but crazed shift from Ontario to Chinese garlic
Food imports at an all-time high, yet demands for our exports to the US shrinking
What are your thoughts on this? Do you even think about it? Talk to me.
The more I learn about food 'systems', the happier I am that I have friends who are learning how to feed themselves, and supporting people in their area who know how to work that land, and make it thrive. Props to Erica, and to Michael Schmidt, duke of dairy.
ReplyDeleteYes, I think about it(!). And my question to you is: what is "food security" - what is your working definition of this concept for the purpose of the blog? So far, it seems safety-oriented and related to knowledge and transparency, contextualizing our food (through sources) and thinking about broader, global/local/both food systems.
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