Fantastic. An encyclopedic treatise , well articulated and described. A wonderful resource. I would love to have a copy, thankfully we have libraries. Extensively resourced and referenced.
“We must reclaim our food. It embodies a complex web of relationships. Food is much more than simply nourishment. It is a huge part of the context in which we exist. Reclaiming our food means actively involving ourselves in this web.
The foods that fill our contemporary supermarket shelves are products of a globalized infrastructure of proprietary genetic material, synthetic and often dangerous chemicals, monocultures, long-distance transportation, factory-scale processing, wasteful packaging, and energy-sucking refrigeration. The food being produced by this system is destroying the earth, destroying our health, destroying economic vitality, and robbing us of of our dignity by breeding dependency and reducing us to the subservient role of consumer.
We need to cultivate a different set of relationships….