The Current Food System

It wasn’t long ago that we either grew our own food or knew the farmer who grew it. However, in recent decades, small local farms have been virtually wiped out by an industrial and corporate controlled food system which has destroyed our natural resources, depleted our soils, sprayed toxic chemicals and has genetically modified our food in an effort to “feed the masses”.

It’s also well known that most of our food travels over 2,000 miles from its origin to our plate. A tremendous amount of packaging, processing, energy and carbon emissions goes into distributing food to consumers. By the time the food gets to us, even healthy vegetables and greens have lost much of their nutritional value. Conventional food distribution systems emit 5 to 17 times more CO2 than local and regional food production. If that wasn’t enough, commercial agriculture is the largest consumer of water worldwide.