{"id":6251,"date":"2017-08-10T08:00:03","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T12:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/communityfirst\/?p=6251"},"modified":"2017-08-03T14:00:08","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T18:00:08","slug":"6251","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/communityfirst\/2017\/6251\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Big Ideas for a Better Food System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Food Secure Canada<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Canadians are concerned with the health and sustainability of the food they eat, and, as more and more people struggle to put good food on the table, our food system has become an issue of increasing priority.<\/p>\n<p>Unhealthy diets claim more lives than any other cause of death; our food system employs more Canadians than any other sector, yet too many are not paid a livable wage, and the food system is responsible for up to 50 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. Fixing our food system is therefore critical to addressing our most urgent health, economic, and environmental problems.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/communityfirst\/wp-content\/uploads\/banner_article_5-big-ideas.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6252\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/communityfirst\/wp-content\/uploads\/banner_article_5-big-ideas.jpg\" alt=\"A banner image with 5 pots of the following: A wooden spoon, a tomato, a green leaf, a blue fish, and comment bubbles.\" width=\"800\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/communityfirst\/wp-content\/uploads\/banner_article_5-big-ideas.jpg 800w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/communityfirst\/wp-content\/uploads\/banner_article_5-big-ideas-160x44.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/communityfirst\/wp-content\/uploads\/banner_article_5-big-ideas-240x66.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/communityfirst\/wp-content\/uploads\/banner_article_5-big-ideas-768x211.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/communityfirst\/wp-content\/uploads\/banner_article_5-big-ideas-400x110.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/communityfirst\/wp-content\/uploads\/banner_article_5-big-ideas-360x99.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite this, Canada currently does not have a national food policy that we need to govern the many aspects of food and how it makes its way to our plates (or is wasted along the way). Instead, we have a patchwork of agricultural policy, health policy, trade policy, environmental policy, social policy, and so on. In order to create a better food system, we need to\u00a0start thinking more comprehensively about how we govern our food, from farm to fork.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/foodsecurecanada.org\/policy-advocacy\/five-big-ideas-better-food-system\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full article<\/a>\u00a0to find out Food Secure Canada&#8217;s 5 big ideas for a food policy in Canada.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Food Secure Canada Canadians are concerned with the health and sustainability of the food they eat, and, as more and more people struggle to put good food on the table, our food system has become an issue of increasing priority. Unhealthy diets claim more lives than any other cause of death; our food system [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[91,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Five 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