We all have eating food in common. Food keeps us alive, growing, becoming. It brings pleasure, relationships, creativity, celebrations, sharing, remembering loved ones, and connecting with the sacred.
Yet, we take food so for granted that we do not remember its nature. We participate in a very complicated food web and depend upon other life for our own. The ways we obtain the food we need from other life we call our food system.
The direction of the current global corporate food system causes the need for the Commoning Food Sovereignty Workbook, written for people wanting to transform our food system, people who want their community to survive the great harms the global corporate food system inflicts on people, other life, and the Earth. We need a sustainable food system, one that meets the needs of the hungry, protects the right to grow food, preserves cultural diversity, and restores our wholeness with the Earth and all life. Throughout this workbook, we will highlight the deep changes needed in our Western beliefs and views for a commoned food system to emerge, a transformation already in process, which local examples will highlight.
