And so begins, FoodWISE, the narrative:
Some nights, I sit down at my dining
table and wonder at the journey of the meal in front of me. Here’s the fork
entering my mouth, there’s the kitchen where I prepared all this food. Before
that was the store where I selected the ingredients, the trucks that brought
the food to the store from the farms. The farms where people planted, watered,
tended, and harvested from the soil itself.
Every bite I take connects me to the
great agricultural web of sun, soil and seed, distributors and sellers, buyers
and eaters. That web is a metaphor for the wider network within which we make
our food choices. Each of the slender threads is interdependent. Take a spider’s web: its
high surface tension allows it to withstand many natural forces, but one broken
thread – a major highway used for food transport floods, trade policy that
supports foreign imports of milk -- can make it all collapse.We are all part of that web, connected to
agriculture, because we eat.
And the beauty, which was so inspiring to me, in Switzerland, begins with my office, and then the short hike from there:
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