Here is a great presentation by Wayne regarding the role of food and hospitality in community development. He talks about the role food policy experts can take in understanding the global tradition of “breaking bread” and how food bolsters connection and community with each other and other species.
Category: Public Health
The Problem Behind the Obesity Problem Keeps Getting Bigger
I went to school at a time when overweight was much rarer than sensitivity. We used to play a prank where we asked newcomers if they knew a way to lose ten pounds of ugly fat. Cut off your head, we’d roar. The error in scientific method that underlies this feeble joke is called “the fallacy of misplaced concreteness.” Long…
TIME FOR AN ALTERNATIVE TO CHEAP FOOD
Only Time will tell if we’re at the point in the food debate to pop the taboo question: how come, despite all the squawking about food being too expensive these days, food is so incredibly cheap? What hidden force lies behind all the obvious problems. To give credit where it’s due, Time magazine, a showpiece of glossy conventional wisdom since 1924, is…
Red Ink: A Canadian View of Food Inc.
I read about Chef Jamie Kennedy possibly going broke on the front-page news (not bad profile for someone who’s not a banker or carmaker getting bailed out by the government) at the same time I got an invite to see the preview of Food Inc. So the chance to think about the two food happenings together gobsmacked me. Food Inc and Food…
Changing the Food System is Just What the Doctor Ordered
It’s unsettling that an authoritative and transformative report on cancer released in February, 2009 has to hearken back to the horse and buggy days of a century ago by calling for a return to “classic public health.” The most authoritative grouping of medical experts in the world released Policy and Action for Cancer Prevention, which identifies cancer as an environmental…
Life Is a Picnic
The scene was just as I remembered from many decades ago, when my grade 5 teacher asked us to name one of the seven wonders of the world, and I stuck up my hand and blurted out “the Scarboro bluffs.” My wife Lori and good friend Harriet joined me for a trip down memory lane on Canada Day when we…