Local And Just

This spring the City of Toronto approved a food strategy entitled, Cultivating Food Connections: Toward a Healthy and Sustainable Food System for Toronto.  This report was prepared by members of the Toronto Food Security Steering Group, which brought together representatives from community food organizations, municipal staff, health officials, businesses, and academics.  Toronto has long been [...]

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 [...]

On January 5, the British government released Food 2030, a plan for agriculture and food in the UK.  It is the first such report in a developed nation in a very long time, and the first in Britain in fifty years.  The Globe & Mail introduces Food 2030 this way:  “Imported beef. Genetically modified potatoes. [...]