Local And Just

Let’s get food policy on the municipal plate. This summer I was introduced – at least for the first time in a meaningful way – to what I like to call “the food issue”. The complex set of issues umbrella-ed under the term has implications on us all – whether you’re a farmer or just [...]

Two news stories caught my eye this week.  News that, while not particularly surprising, is pretty indicative of the values (or lack thereof) that drive our food system.  Actually, values is the wrong word.  There is but a sole creed of the industrial food system:  profit before people.  If there is an opportunity for money [...]

Being an Albertan can be a heavy load to bear.  Even after having not lived in the province for a good ten years, home is still a place that rarely makes me proud.  Alberta seems to do a particularly good job, as a province, of putting itself on the wrong side of pretty much every [...]

Just spent a long and taxing day. Face to facing with Syngenta, McCains, Bayers, Sobeys and the like. Way (light years of way) out of my comfort zone. Talking up agriculture and sustainability. What the hell was I drinking? Seen as the biggest, baddest, and ugliest food corporations around. They are hate personified for many [...]