Join the Fair Food Movement by Chris Ennis

Once were farmers
Over the past 12,000 years, the age of agriculture, most of us were farmers.  We were wedded to the land that fed us.  The foods we grew defined who we were; people of wheat or corn or rice.   The seasons dictated our diets, the harvests our festivals.  Then less than a hundred years ago in a burst of incredible oil-fuelled ingenuity humanity managed to do what 600 starvation weary generations of farmers have dreamt of – created a cheap, abundant food supply grown by a handful of producers freeing the rest of us to pursue our dreams in the cities and towns. In Australia in 1900 1 in 7 of us were farmers, today only 1 in 33 grow the food we eat. (more…)