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The world is facing a food crisis of staggering proportions. The World Watch Institute has alerted us to the global catastrophe that 1.1 billion people go to sleep hungry every night and 1.1 billion suffer from obesity, diabetes, anorexia and diet-related illnesses. These aren’t just "social" problems that start and end somewhere else. Food is your problem. The crisis of food insecurity and food risk is systemic. Each individual problem is connected to all the others. Because food is a personal issue as well as a social and political one, the Field to Table Campaign is about individual choice as well as the ways in which we can help to change the system through three fundamental principles: Eat it; Grow it; Share it – Put Food First. The Field to Table Campaign allows us to change the world while we’re changing ourselves and promotes a growing consciousness about the importance of what and how we eat. Field to Table expresses an idea of how all the steps in the way food is grown — in the field — on what kind of farm, how it is distributed and sold, to the way it is purchased, cooked and shared — at the table — add up to be an integral part of our lives. By putting food first you can make personal choices that will contribute
directly to building a social and political movement. You can
join any number of community initiatives such as the Good Food Box
right
in your neighbourhood.
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