Sentences with phrase «current food production systems»

Given these grave health consequences (and the high social, environmental, and ethical costs of current food production systems), the logical step is to break free from processed foods and to replace these poor - quality products with a raw food diet.

Barber is an outspoken critic of the current food production system and a strong believer in the power of cooking to counteract rampant food waste; but he also insists on the need for people to think about their overall diets in terms of waste, primarily by reducing meat consumption and prioritizing vegetables and grains.

Not exact matches

So does the food system, once you get away from growing food [in] oil which is our current preoccupation and one that isn't going to last much longer, the need for local production and control and whatever food has the same, and I was trying to argue at the end I think much the same thing is sort of happening with culture as well, that we have simultaneously this incredibly interesting global thing, the Internet and it's allowing you to live very locally and globally at the same time.

In the long term we can not continue to devastate the healthy ecology that is vital to sustaining food production in the interest of keeping the current system going.

In a world that faces growing food insecurity, the best and most efficient response is to worry less about production and more about addressing the gaps in our current distribution system — primarily, why an estimated 40 percent of all calories produced for human consumption fails to reach mouths and bellies.

Vegans, vegetarians, and conscious omnivores alike all recognize that our current food production and distribution system in the United States is broken (we do agree on that, right?).