This Pandemic Shines a Spotlight on Our Unsustainable Food System

We are bringing you this article from Local Harvest as it’s is a good summary of the situation we are now facing with our Food System.

“The average American consumer is taking notice, for once, of the numerous weaknesses and paradoxes of a food system designed to maximize corporate profits at the expense of worker health, public health, food security, animal welfare, ecological and economic resilience.”

“[…] Rural America is essentially a colonized nation within a nation. We extract all of our necessary resources from it- food, timber, fossil fuels, wind energy, etc., and in return it gets paid less then it costs to produce those things, little by way of social services or educational opportunities, and gets to absorb all of the environmental costs and social ruin.”

Full Article From Local Harvest by Rebecca Thistlethwaite.