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Fair Food : Stories From a Movement Changing the Worldby Nick RoseEnglish | 2015 | ISBN: 0702253669 | 304 Pages | True PDF | 2.08 MBAustralia’s food system is more than just broken ” it’s killing us. The groundbreaking Fair Food: Inspiring People to Change the World tells the new story of food “ the story of how food and farming in Australia are dramatically transforming at the grassroots to match the transition of our times.”This is a book about food. But it’s also a book about people. About remarkable folks who’ve made connections between what we eat, how it’s grown and what our future, as a species and as a planet, might hold. It’s a book about the potential for change and the power of direct action. In a world seemingly full of disaster, it’s a book about hopeful futures, about community resilience. In our contemporary Western world, we are bombarded with statistics. They generally paint a rather bleak view of things, particularly statistics related to the food system, whether it’s food waste, food miles, environmental degradation, climate change, obesity and type 2 diabetes, hunger and malnutrition – the list goes on and on. From all the statistics it seems pretty clear that our food system is broken. Thinking like this is not only daunting, it’s problematic, because when we talk only about statistics we lose sight of the individuals who make up those statistics; they become an abstract number. And in the face of such harrowing statistics, it is these stories we desperately need: the stories of people who are fighting against the current food system and providing alternative visions and practical solutions. The stories in this book are just a few of the many thousands of stories of people engaging more and more meaningfully with the food they eat – from market gardeners to livestock producers to backyard gardeners and people who are buying direct from growers at farmers’ markets and through community-supportedagriculture, to shop owners, butchers and wholesalers who are finding ways to make things fairer for producers, the earth and animals. We all have a role to play in the future of Fair Food. Its time has come. …I hope that this book and the stories in it will inspire you to think more about the food you eat, the farmer who grew it, the land it grew on and how you might contribute to making the food system more fair. Fair Food tells of the future that is possible, the future that has already begun on farms, in paddocks, in markets and on platesall around Australia. When all of our stories become connected, the tide of Fair Food will be unstoppable. In the words of Tammi Jonas, pig-farming butcher and one of the authors featured in this book, ‘Watch out, Big Food, because we are legion, and the future of Fair Food is now.’About the AuthorDr Nick Rose is the National Coordinator of the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance, and Food Systems Coordinator of a new National Food Network, ‘Sustain’. He was one of the developers of Australia’s first crowd-sourced food policy document, the People’s Food Plan, and coordinates Fair Food Week, now in its third year. He was the Content Director of Australia’s first food politics documentary, Fair Food.Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Fair-Food-Stories-Movement-Changing/dp…