Our food systems are set up to produce cheap calories to the detriment of the environment and our communities. Over the past several years, we have experienced increasing frequency and intensity of climate change impacts including hurricanes, floods, and droughts. Our water is contaminated, and our soil is depleted. Farmworkers are facing health risks and food insecurity. And our communities are getting sick. The large industrial corporations that have hijacked our food system do not care about their impact; they only care about raking in record profits every quarter.
When we ask for a better food system, one that protects human and environmental well-being, we are told we should make better choices and the market will respond. That is simply not true.
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