‘Just as humans didn’t move beyond the Stone Age because the world ran out of stones, it’s unlikely we will go beyond a corporate food system because we have run out of monopoly corporations. We will return food to small and public organizations because that is the most logical way to manage a food system designed to provide primarily local and…
Month: April 2016
Earth Day Water
‘I don’t want to do a list of what cities could do if people in them cared about water. Frankly, it would be demeaning to do a list. Before we do a list, we must make water visible, and must make it intelligible to our narcissistic and departmentalized minds.’ —Wayne Roberts Field notes this week: This idea might seem all…
Re: City Policy
‘Whoever thought that food banks should be the first responders to food insecurity was certainly not thinking in terms of the subsidiarity principle, let alone nutritional principles, or empowerment of people principles.’ —Wayne Roberts Field notes this week: Pandemonium & City Food Security I supervised a university-level food studies class last week that, partly by design and partly by sheer…