09/29/2026
Since World WarII globalization has offered some incredible technologies to offer preservation and access to multitudes of food from every corner of the earth, year round.
For those of us born into this type of system it’s easy to forget that it hasn’t always been this way…
Our modern food system may offer cheap options but these often come at a hidden cost. Cheap wage labour (prison labour, human trafficking), environmental degradation, nutritional voids. These are some of the impacts we collectively face in the wake of for-profit cheap food.
The North American food system was built on a bloody and brutal history. Monocropping soy and wheat to use as fillers for processed foods keeps us sick.
The “buy local” movement has since become something out of reach for many people working to feed their families. Having to skip whole foods in favour of processed cheap carbohydrates means missing out on the nutritional density the earth offers when we can eat what the seasons provide.
Highly processed foods keep us sick and tired and depressed.
Eating local and in season is not a new thing. We don’t have to invent more technologies to eat food… we just have to remember how we did it before.