Food is national security. Food is craft. Food is everything, when you think about it.
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A safe, affordable and plentiful supply of food is a national security issue.
Food is as important as energy, as security, as the environment. Everything is linked together.
Food is everything we are. It's an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It's inseparable from those from the get-go.
Food sovereignty is an affirmation of who we are as indigenous peoples and a way, one of the most surefooted ways, to restore our relationship with the world around us.
In America, we are engaged in constant battle with food.
Food isn't like anything else. It's something precious. It's not a commodity.
Each country has to decide how to best engage their own citizens and their own policy environment to ensure they can produce the food they need.
Food has become such an interesting issue in the nation and the world.
The act of eating is very political. You buy from the right people, you support the right network of farmers and suppliers who care about the land and what they put in the food.
The focus of Congress is on keeping the nation secure - and it doesn't see that food security is an essential part of that responsibility. Instead of putting more food on the tables of America, they are busy finding ways to take it away.