‘It absolutely shapes what we do’: a food sustainability expert’s No 1 book
It helped me gain a holistic perspective on the topic. There was nothing that hadn’t been thought of in their approach to why we need to shift to eating more sustainably.
Even though my interest started from the health aspect, the more I read the more I understood that food is part of a system. We cannot look at it in silos if we want to make change; there are so many people involved and so many policies that drive the current system.
Yu says that anybody with an interest in sustainability through a food lens should have a copy of “Sustainable Diets”.
The topic is big and sprawling, and not easy to get your arms around completely, but that’s what’s exciting about working in the space.
The book taught me not to take the first piece of research and believe in it as truth – there will always be vested interests somewhere in the system. It taught me to be critical of everything I read about food and sustainability.
I started to question every label on food. Anything that seemed like a silver bullet solution was something I’d be interested in investigating further, but was unlikely to be what it seemed.
It absolutely shapes what we do at Future Green. It reminds us that we should never just look at one side of a story
Most of all, I understood the importance of shopping with ethical brands where possible and buying from smallholders at farmers’ markets, supporting small businesses and also understanding the power of big agriculture.
This course gave me the impetus to start my own business, partly because I hadn’t worked for quite a few years, and because it gave me clarity in terms of the direction I wanted to take.
This book is incredibly informative, and anybody with an interest in sustainability through a food lens should have a copy.
It absolutely shapes what we do at Future Green. It reminds us that we should never just look at one side of a story.
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