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Culture! That’s subsidiarity to you, bud

‘Food policy and legal policy mean the same thing in North America, but that isn’t the only way to do food policy. Italians can decouple food policy and food law because they have a rich culture.’ —Wayne Roberts Field notes this week: When I’m having dinner and a drink at a restaurant in my home town of Toronto, I’m used to…

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Food as a City Lens & Lever

‘If we thought the purpose of a city transportation department was to reduce unnecessary trips, rather than build roads and highways for unnecessary trips — or do unnecessary road repairs of damage done by unnecessary trips (Toronto spends 100 million a year on this) – such departments would surely look at food trips as the ones to reduce.’ —Wayne Roberts…

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