The term “food system” sounds comfortingly familiar and understandable. System, in the sense of interacting parts, has been used for a long time. Sixteenth-century astronomers talked about systems of the…
Read more[Until the 1970s and 80s, the term “food system,” which now seems so indispensable, was rarely used. In March 2017 I posted on the possible origins of the term. What…
Read moreThere’s been lots of hoo-ha on social media around “The Food System Is/Isn’t Broken.” Combatants have diverse definitions of broken that are not my concern in this particular post. My…
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