Posted on 08/01/05
Diet for an even smaller planet
Feeding the Future:From Fat to Famine: How to Solvethe World's Food CrisesEdited By Andrew Heintzman and Evan SolomonAnansi, 317 pages, $37.95Wendell Berry, a farmer and poet, has often noted that "eating is an agricultural act." Yet most of urban North America seems hell-bent on denying this fundamental reality. Thanks to factory farms and fossil fuels, we now have fewer people producing more protein than ever before, and all for a group of largely overweight diners who know less and less about where their food comes from. I even worked once for an Maclean's editor who soberly assured me that "food comes from the freezer."
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