About Sustain Ontario
Food is connected to every major problem we face as a society – declining farm incomes, the paving-over of farmland, wildlife protection, urban sprawl, youth unemployment, rising medical costs, poverty, hunger, and communities at risk.
The way we grow, market, process, manufacture, and distribute our food here in Ontario reveals connections across the global village. Ontario’s working landscapes, farms, rural communities, and cities are linked in a web of complex exchanges. But our food policies to date have usually ignored that web, dividing rather than connecting. If we are going to build a healthy and sustainable village, we have to make the connections. More…
