In today's fast-paced, fast food world, everyone seems to be eating
alone, all the time, whether it's at their desks or in the car.
Even those who find time for a family meal are cut off from the
people who grew, harvested, distributed, marketed, and sold the
foods on their table. Few ever break bread with anyone outside
their own socioeconomic group. So why does Michael Carolan say that
that no one eats alone? Because all of us are affected by the other
people in our vast foodscape. We can no longer afford to ignore
these human connections as we struggle with dire problems like
hunger, obesity, toxic pesticides, antibiotic resistance, depressed
rural economies, and low-wage labour. Carolan argues that building
community is the key to healthy, equitable, and sustainable food.
While researching No One Eats Alone, he interviewed more than 250
individuals, from flavourists to Fortune 500 executives,
politicians to feedlot managers, low-income families to crop
scientists, who play a role in the life of food.Advertising
consultants told him of efforts to distance eaters and producers,
most food firms don't want their customers thinking about farm
labourers or the people living downstream of processing plants. But
he also found stories of people getting together to change their
relationship to food and to each other. There are community farms
where suburban moms and immigrant families work side by side,
reducing social distance as much as food miles. There are
entrepreneurs with little capital or credit who are setting up
online exchanges to share kitchen space, upending conventional
notions of the economy of scale. There are parents and school board
members who are working together to improve cafeteria food rather
than relying on soda taxes to combat childhood obesity. Carolan
contends that real change only happens when we start acting like
citizens first and consumers second. No One Eats Alone is a book
about becoming better food citizens.
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