Food Localism
How far did your meal travel before it got to your plate? Food localism is about minimizing the length of that trip. Globalization and centralized distribution systems have dramatically increased the distances between where food is grown or raised and where it is finally eaten. Food localism builds local production for local consumption in order to minimize greenhouse gas emissions from transportation, to support and diversify local agriculture, and to promote local food security and food sovereignty.
Food localism initiatives
- Slow Food Canada
- Foodlink—Waterloo, ON
- Living on the Hundred-Mile Diet, BC
- LoFo – University of Regina
- Harvest Moon Society – Clearwater, MB
- Food Down the Road – Kingston, ON
- SOS Cuisine – Quebec and Ontario
- Equiterre – Quebec
- Falls Brooks Centre – New Brunswick
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