Edible Action Food Activism and Alternative Economics
Sally Miller, Fernwood Publishing, Canada., September 2008

Hunger is up, obesity is up, food-borne illness is up, farms are lost to debt and despair; the food system fails growing numbers of people across the world every day. Yet if we adjust our lens, we see ubiquitous commitments to change: food movements and enterprises dedicated to making the world a better place to eat and to live. Food initiatives—from farmers’ markets to fair trade coffee—offer a pattern of powerful alternatives to conventional food economics, which benefit only a handful of people and corporations. Edible Action argues that food is peculiarly situated to address the ills of an unjust economic system and to mobilize people against it.
Contents
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Foreword: Beautiful Tomatoes and the Dance for Land
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Lessons from History
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Frankenfoods and the Fight to Define Nature
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Lunch with Alternative Economics
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Growth and Granola: The Story of the Organic Movement
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Rich With Others: Co-operatives and Capital in Atlantic Canada
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Hunger and Sovereignty: Strategies of Justice in the Food Security Movement
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Fair Food: Restoring Equity to the Food System
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Living by Our Food: Farmers’ Markets, Community Food Democracy and the People’s Economics