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Our Food, Our Future

With thanks to: The Perennial Plate - From Japan with Love, Dfuse - Rice Fields - Bandung Indonesia - (extract from D-Fuse film 'Endless Cities'), The Source Image - The Keralan Cowboy, Passit on - Atamai Village - Permaculture Community, Lorna Lily Saxbee - Feeding kids teaser - www.pluggedinmedia.com.au, Super Deluxe - Trailer GMO OMG, Samsara - Samsara Food Sequence, Meanwhile Outside: Milkwood Permaculture, KOANGA, The Farm Byron, Ahinsa Sri Lanka, KOMBU, Matt Anderson - Fall and winter, Inhabit - Inhabit a Permaculture Perspective, Marras Stefano - Esta Es Mi Comida. Street Food Stories from South America.

Food is our love

Food is the living thread of our humanity. We're born feeding, and brought up connecting with family and friends over meal times. The kitchen and its table the heart of the home. We live and love the tastes, flavours, and culture of eating together, wherever we happen to be born.

Food is our pain

Yet, we have lost our love of real food. Flawless imports and 365-day supermarket availability, mean more and more of the world is unable to identify where the food they consume is grown. Grown chemically, pumped with additives, preservatives and flavour enhancers, manufactured and synthetically farmed food doesn't taste-tally with the healthier alternative reality. Our food system is broken by scandal and distrust.

The system failure starts and ends with industrial farming. Industrial farms manufacture heavily treated, genetically engineered crops that end up served as animal feed or junk food. Vast amounts go to waste. The agri-business and large food corporations monopolize the system that suppresses both local farming and the biodiversity of our planet.

Food scandals make headlines. The fact that the current broken food system is devastating our planet, not so much. Yet bees, essential to biodiversity, are dying. Intensive livestock farming contaminates precious water supplies. Local farmers become poorer, children more obese. None of which is incidental, it's all symptomatic of a shattered system.

Food needs to change

There is a better system. Scientific progress means that positive change is possible. Ecological farming re-connects people with food through farmers, using science to enhance and sustain biodiversity and its healthier harvests. While industrial farming ignores the drastic consequences of climate change and adds to them, ecological farming works with a world in a state of flux, and always with the future in mind.

Change the future of food together

The future of food starts today. A growing movement of farmers, citizens, companies, NGOs around the world are demanding change. Choosing to know where your food is grown will change the future of food: Change by buying ecological and seasonal, buying direct from farmers' markets, cooking with fresh, garden or locally-grown ingredients. Change by saying 'no' to food on the go and meat at every meal.

Today, progressive ecological techniques, together with individual daily choices empower us to farm, cook, eat and change the future of food, together.

Our Food, Our Future.

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Golden Illusion

Publication | 17 October, 2013 at 19:53

GE 'Golden' rice is a genetically engineered (GE, also called genetically modified, GM) rice variety developed by the biotech industry to produce pro-vitamin A (beta-carotene). Proponents portray GE 'Golden' rice as a technical, quick-fix solut...

Bees in Decline

Publication | 9 April, 2013 at 7:30

Honeybees and wild pollinators play a crucial role in agriculture and food production. However, the current chemical-intensive agriculture model is threatening both, and thereby putting food supply at risk

Ecological Livestock

Publication | 12 February, 2013 at 12:41

Options for reducing livestock production and consumption to fit within ecological limits, with a focus in Europe.

Glyphosate-tolerant crops in the EU

Publication | 30 October, 2012 at 15:51

Renowned agricultural economist Dr. Charles Benbrook was commissioned by Greenpeace International to make the first ever forecast of how Europe would be impacted by the authorisation of the cultivation of herbicide-tolerant, genetically-engineered...

A just and fair economy

Publication | 1 November, 2011 at 12:35

At Rio de Janeiro in 2012 governments must change the dangerous course we’re on. Sustainable Development Goals should be launched to form the basis of development within planetary boundaries.

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