Food is the Solution, Deep Food is Our Weapon

The colonizer’s food is slowly killing us. Food is the weapon of self-destruction the colonizer placed in our hands and sells us at the Super-Size Me fast food joints and convenience marts.

But food is also the solution. It is our tool for liberation, health, and spiritual healing. Deep food is our weapon – the means to move toward autonomy and the renewal of a living traditional community.

Friends With Benefits: So Long and Thanks For All the Eggs!

Someday I hope to have my own chickens, but until then I’m satisfied with knowing my eggs come from happy hens. And although I may not know them personally, sometimes now when I crack an egg I’ll send out a silent thanks to the animal it came from.

Down on the Farm

Your GoodFood World publishers are farmers one afternoon a week at Jubilee Biodynamic Farm in Carnation WA and it has rained every week since the end of April! A little mud never hurt anyone!

Bringing the Flavors of Mexico to Seattle

Devon Peña, professor of Anthropology at the University of Washington, Seattle, interviews Sonia (Mendoza) and Carlos Cervantes about produce and prepared food sold in their market, Mendoza’s Mexican Mercado.

Big Food Couldn’t Care Less

Our lusting for bad food is no accident, my friends, but the result of a great conspiracy to condition us to a synthetic, grossly unhealthy food system dominated by unscrupulous corporations seeking profit above genuine service to the public. Kelly Brownell, Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, showes us exactly why that happened.

Mapping the land grab in Africa

Corporations, governments, even universities are enclosing indigenous territories. For the past two years we have been tracking the voracious land grab that is unfolding across much of the two-thirds world including Africa, Asia, and South America. These new enclosures are a destructive force associated with the plague of globalization and its marshaling and disciplining rationale of neoliberalism with its panacea of free trade and privatization.