In the late 1970’s, meetings took place in communities across Canada to discuss the food system and how to improve it. The process was an extraordinary set of hearings called the People’s Food Commission.
Modeled as a people-driven version of the Royal Commissions, the commissioners (mostly volunteers, many of whom continue today as Canada’s most effective activists and workers for change) held hearings everywhere, including people’s kitchens, school gymnasiums, churches, etc. The problems from over thirty years ago sound familiar today...
