We face a large responsibility to solve problems with respect to the growth, distribution and consumption of food. Individual choices are in many ways disconnected from the larger food landscape of one’s community and the rest of the world. Issues about food share a root of great significance: they are all linked to ‘food’ understood exclusively as ‘food items.’ Items are generally conceived as static, disposable, and replaceable. Food conceived in this way easily allows eschewing personal and social responsibility about the very problematic issues that surround it. However, food items are never only items; rather, foodstuffs are better described as nodes of activity that link past to present and future, ever changing, and telling of histories, political struggles, social status, culture, personal preferences and identity, etc.
