Year-Round vs. Seasonal Eating

It's not uncommon for most of us eaters to view the system supplying us with food as being separate from us, but on this podcast, one of Canada's most recognized food policy analysts offers his perspectives which suggest otherwise. Instead, the food system has in many ways been designed to satisfy the demands that we make every day to eat the same food, year-round, regardless of season, geography or climate. It seems that we eaters, have become so accustomed to that fresh tomato slice on our sandwich, that glass of orange juice in the morning, or that salad of fresh greens, that these very demands have shaped the food system, and, subsequently, shaped the world we live in. But are these demands for a perpetual harvest necessary? Could we do just fine or even better by choosing a more seasonal approach to eating?...., and, if so, could this way of eating reconstruct the food system for the better? Features: Rod MacRae , Associate Professor, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University (Toronto, ON)

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Year-Round vs. Seasonal Eating is an episode from Deconstructing Dinner by Deconstructing Dinner.

This episode is 40:42 long.

This episode was published on Jan 6, 2014.

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