Recently I was given a media pass to the Health Food Trade show, since I write about food for Synergy Magazine. During the 90s, I attended this trade show as an employee of a Nanaimo...
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Food: The West Coast Hippie Diet Of The ‘70s
A major focus of the lifestyle changes embraced by the hippie movement involved looking at our relationship with food and nutrition. Having grown up as baby boomers at the beginning...
Food: Critical Thinking Required
Looking at our food system and its demons takes commitment and courage. There are over 1 billion people in the world who are hungry, yet so much food is wasted. As big corporations...
Will We Change Our Food Habits?
We eat when we need to. And often, when we don’t need to. Many of us are conditioned to eat 3 times a day, hungry or not. Eating is a way to entertain ourselves if we are bored,...
Joy from the Garden, Healthy Pantry & Soul Food
It’s that time of year to celebrate really fresh garden food. Our gardens are places of work, learning and joy. Plus, we realize how grateful we are to the farmers who feed us the...
Food: La Via Campesina and Food Sovereignty
The year 1993 marked the beginning of a transnational agrarian movement, called La Via Campesina. By 1996 they had coined the term Food Sovereignty, declaring it their right to grow...
Food: Protect Our Food Supply
Active Commitment Is Vital To Protect Our Food Supply Although I have written before about "Who Controls Our Food”, it is a topic that is truly a mother issue for all of us....
Restoring Our Connection to Food
First and foremost, we ALL eat for a living. And…most of us are utterly dependent on the labour of others to do so. Restoring our connection with food needs to begin by acknowledging...
Who Controls Our Food Supply?
Are you concerned about the future of food? As planetary citizens, we know that a food crisis exists, that millions go hungry, or rely on charity to eat, that industrial agriculture...
Food – How Much Do We Waste?
In this time of a global food crisis, it is appropriate for concerned citizens of the world to examine their food habits. Recently in the UK, an extensive study was done to determine...
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