Food distribution is based around long
centralized supply chains which function best
when supplied by large mono-cultural farms.
This type of industrialized farming has
polluted our soil, water and displaced or
eradicated native wildlife.
On an individual basis we are increasingly
disconnected from our food, where it comes
from and the people that produce it. Most of
us lack basic skills or understanding of
growing, preparing and cooking food – all of
which increases our dependency on a fragile
food system.
It turns out that much of the food created by
this system is not very good for our health –
obesity and other diet-related health
problems are affecting more and more of us.
Not only is our current food system
unsustainable, but it has turned us into a
nation of passive consumers in a top-down
system from which we expect unlimited
‘choice’ but over which we have little control.