Abra Brynne, Director of Engagement and Policy at BC Food Systems Network and a CFICE Community Food Security hub partner, describes her experiences learning about how to decolonize food systems in this moving blog post, published December 3, 2015 on Rabble.ca. An excerpt from Abra Brynne’s article can be found below, along with a link to the full article.
“I used to think that I could easily write an essay about sustainable food systems policy reform in British Columbia. I have spent the better part of the past 25 years working to foster such food systems and to ameliorate the regulatory and policy realms that impact them. But earlier this year I heard James Daschuk describe the policies of Prime Minister John A MacDonald and others. I cried as I listened to the impact of programs that sought to eliminate, through starvation and other more direct forms of violence, the Indigenous inhabitants from this place the settlers call Canada so that the newly “cleared” land would be available for use by immigrants.”