FOOD CHOICES...

I had an awful realization recently. What happens when you no longer have control over what you want to eat? Now this is not as simple as it sounds. Ok, as a child I might be arguing for all day cornflakes if I could go back to that place but hear me out. There are so many factors at play when it comes to being able to access the food you want or need. An ideal scenario is local nourishing food. This seems straightforward and logical. The issue though is what is nourishing? What is local? What is food? Things we took for granted have been eroded so profoundly by the multinational food industry we no longer know what is what. Ultra processed food has seduced us with the convenience and diluted our appreciation for the value of real nourishing food. The problem being that policy makers also loose this knowledge and make decisions about my future diet based on business as usual. Hospital food for example is not noted for its healing properties any more…

Working at The Urban Co-op is like living in an oasis. I have choice. What happens as I age and I am hostage to being fed the standard fare complete meal plans recommended by my local pharmaceutical company… doesn’t bear thinking about. 

Anne Maher