Food in Ontario

A great film put together by the Food Security Research Network:

Northern Grown: Food Security in Thunder Bay

sustainable food systems

Breastfeeding: A Paradigm of a Sustainable Food System

What would a sustainable food system look like? To answer this question, we can just look at the characteristics of breastfeeding:

• The consumer is in control;
• The food is designed to meet the specific needs of the consumer, and changes in quality and quantity as those needs change over time;
• There is no excess packaging the packaging is infinitely re-usable and aesthetically pleasing;
• No fossil fuels are used in the production or distribution of the food;
• There is a direct, not to say intimate, relationship between producer and consumer;
• The producer needs to be healthy and well-nourished or the system does not work;
• Once the system is established, both producer and consumer derive pleasure from it.

- Cathleen Kneen, 2005

a few more reasons to eat locally