
Edible Action
Food Activism and Alternative Economics
Hunger is up, obesity is up, food-borne illness is up, farms are lost to debt and despair; the food system fails growing numbers of people across the world every day. Yet if we adjust our lens, we see ubiquitous commitments to change: food movements and enterprises dedicated to making the world a better place to eat and to live. Food initiatives–from farmers’ markets to fair trade coffee–offer a pattern of powerful alternatives to conventional food economics, which benefit only a handful of people and corporations. Edible Action argues that food is peculiarly situated to address the ills of an unjust economic system and to mobilize people against it.
About the book
Hunger is up, obesity is up, food-borne illness is up, farms are lost to debt and despair; the food system fails growing numbers of people across the world every day. Yet if we adjust our lens, we see ubiquitous commitments to change: food movements and enterprises dedicated to making the world a better place to eat and to live. Food initiatives–from farmers’ markets to fair trade coffee–offer a pattern of powerful alternatives to conventional food economics, which benefit only a handful of people and corporations. Edible Action argues that food is peculiarly situated to address the ills of an unjust economic system and to mobilize people against it.
Contents
- Foreword: Beautiful Tomatoes and the Dance for Land
- Lessons from History
- Frankenfoods and the Fight to Define Nature
- Lunch with Alternative Economics
- Growth and Granola: The Story of the Organic Movement
- Rich With Others: Co-operatives and Capital in Atlantic Canada
- Hunger and Sovereignty: Strategies of Justice in the Food Security Movement
- Fair Food: Restoring Equity to the Food System
- Living by Our Food: Farmers’ Markets, Community Food Democracy and the People’s Economics