The Story of Food

USC Canada’s new short, animated film will get you thinking about our broken food system. It identifies what’s gone wrong, and what we can do to rebuild it.

The Story Of Food from USC Canada on Vimeo.

What Can You Do?

• Think about how our food is produced and where it comes from.
• Buy local, organic, and fair trade whenever you can.
• Support small scale farmers who grow healthy food around the world.
• Make your voice heard by joining the worldwide movement to change our food system.

Together, we can build a healthy food system…for everyone! Stay tuned for more resources, information, and action alerts.

To start you thinking, here is a quote from Canadian writer and journalist Thomas Pawlick:

“Right now, if you go to the produce section of any supermarket – anyone at all – and buy fruit or vegetables, or cottage cheese, or meat, you would have to eat something like five times as much of that food to get the same amount of vitamins and minerals as your parents or grandparents got in the 1950s.”---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The Story of Food might remind you of "The Story of Stuff", a clever commentary on the story of production and consumption in our world. This was something introduced a few years ago during "The Year of the Story", the Institute's first annual focus in 2005. Here it is again:

For more information on this project, visit: www.storyofstuff.org