{"id":956,"date":"2010-08-08T13:58:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-08T13:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/?p=956"},"modified":"2010-08-08T13:58:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-08T13:58:00","slug":"another-comment-about-local-food-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/?p=956","title":{"rendered":"Another comment about local food production"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;At the country level, most of us are completely invested in this global food system, which is built on some very, very rickety pillars. I think, however, <b>there&#8217;s a lot of interesting stuff that goes on more on the municipal level with farmer&#8217;s markets, community supported agriculture with food policy councils, which are springing up all over cities and towns in Canada and in the U.S.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And these are really talking about trying to <b>shorten supply chains, create a level of food sovereignty at a local level,<\/b> investing things like soup kitchens and community kitchens, which act as an <b>insurance policy against food shocks for economically poor people.<\/b> So, I think the most innovative stuff is actually happening at a small scale across North America.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And there&#8217;s very little attention to this issue being placed at a national or international scale.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Evan Fraser, co-author with Andrew Rimas of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1439101892\/realvampiresreso\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Empires of Food: Feast, Famine and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=129052445&#038;ft=1&#038;f=1032\">Source: NPR<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;At the country level, most of us are completely invested in this global food system, which is built on some very, very rickety pillars. I think, however, there&#8217;s a lot of interesting stuff that goes on more on the municipal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/?p=956\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}