By Sue Booth, John Coveney
This booklet explores the hyperlinks among nutrients and democracy. It addresses how democratic rules can be utilized to form our nutrition method and takes a realistic ‘how-to’ method of utilizing democratic methods to regain keep watch over of the nutrition we devour. It additionally highlights what meals democracy feels like at the floor and the way participants, groups and societies may be empowered to entry, cook dinner and consume fit nutrition in ways in which are sustainable.
Food democracy, as an idea, is a social stream in accordance with the concept that humans can and may be capable to actively perform shaping the nutrition approach instead of being passive spectators. The e-book comes in handy for college and complex TAFE classes that conceal themes reading meals in healthiness sciences, social sciences and different components of analysis. it's also correct to healthiness practitioners, nutritionists, nutrition advocates, coverage makers and others with a prepared curiosity in exploring a substitute for the commercial foodstuff procedure often called “Big Food.”
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Spiralling energy prices (Australian Energy Regulator 2013) and an increased interest in sustainable living (Miller and Bentley 2012) has resulted in people turning to vegetable gardening as a viable supplement to their family’s diet. Food grown in the backyard consumes little if any fuel for shipping or maintenance, and the grower can be sure of what exactly was used to grow it. Added to this is the plethora of newspaper, magazine articles, blogs, Websites and radio/television shows promoting vegetable growing, as well as the ready availability of heirloom and organic seeds and seedlings in chain hardware stores or online suppliers.
We have also highlighted the essential features of a strong functioning democracy and how those features may be realised in a ‘food democracy’. Having laid the theoretical foundations of both the industrial food system and food democracy, we now turn to a practical exploration of food democracy at different levels. As we have seen, food democracy is fundamentally about reshaping food power and relations; in the next chapter, we examine how consumers may practise food democracy by regaining control of the food system at individual and household level.
