How Food Shapes Our Cities, Our Lives & Our Bellys

Have you ever thought about where our food comes from? I don’t just mean from the ground, or from a farmer or from a supermarket but how all that food actually gets to us? How are cities are designed around getting food in to the people? Apart from the end product, most of never actually get to see where our food comes from and apart from dim and faded memories of learning the ABCs with farm animal pictures we are generally quite separate and distinct from the act of sustaining the human body from seed to feed. That’s someone else’s job.

The video below is a fascinating look at the bigger, societal impact our busy lives and ever-increasing city populations have on our food choices. Unless we grow our own food in our backyard there’s a certain anonymity to the whole buying and selling of food process. It used to be a social thing, a gathering of people around a vital need at hugely thriving outdoor markets – now, shopping is more a chore and something to get out of the way as quickly as possible.