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Day 10: How was your food grown /raised?
by MargaretAnne Overstreet At the core of this question is a conversation about sustainability. In the service of greater productivity and with a mandate to feed the world, our industrial food system embraces chemical pesticides and herbicides, petroleum-heavy fertilizers, genetically-modified versions of crops, and confined feedlots. Despite these ‘advancements’ in agriculture – which pose environmental, health, and animal [Read More...] |
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Day 9: Where does your food come from?
by MargaretAnne Overstreet Tracking our food back through the maze of the industrial food system to the farm from which it originated is an impossible task. Usually, we can track it back to its country of origin, but rarely to its farm of origin. There are only two ways to know exactly where your food comes from: either [Read More...] |
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Day 8: Comfort Food
by MargaretAnne Overstreet Certainly, eating is an agricultural act, connecting us to those who grow and harvest the food. Of course, eating is also an ecological act, tying us to the land and the environment. Eating is even a political act, as we use each and every food dollar to cast our ‘vote’ about how we want the [Read More...] |
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Day 7: A Single Right Answer
by MargaretAnne Overstreet Though our attempts to find a working definition of food justice have only scratched the surface of the larger conversation, after seven days of food justice posts, we are beginning to see that the issues included in the food justice conversation are numerous and diverse. In an article several years ago in the New York [Read More...] |
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