With a shift in attitude toward cooking and eating, lets also pay more attention to the way we talk about food
My hope is that we pay more attention to the way we talk about food; dietary regimes have become a means of self-definition – a set of rules to follow, a clan to be a part of, which creates the potential to become divisive.“In this part of the world, it will be increasingly difficult for small agricultural operators to survive, let alone compete in the years to come,” says Tony Marshall, who with his wife, Penny, runs a small-scale organic farm in High River, Alta.
“Feeding a hungry world is as dependent on government policies, distribution and food waste as it is upon increasing production outputs,” Marshall says. “Addressing the problem of food waste, on the farm and during transport, storage, processing, distribution, in retail and by end-users, will be essential to resolving food security issues.
They both expect technology to have an ever-increasing presence in the coming decade, citing a local hot pot restaurant at which diners order from their tables on iPads, but believe that social media has hit a plateau in terms of its influence on the dining experience. With such a constant barrage of imagery and information, Ling says, it no longer has the same impact.
“My hope for the coming decade is that the industry be more collaborative,” Stewart says. “Look down, on whose shoulders are we standing? Look beside, who’s travelling on a similar pathway? Look ahead, there are way too many silos and we need to build some bridges. We all, as consumers, need to be more grateful, introspective and well-informed advocates for Canadian agricultural and processing communities who are competing not only with the world, but increasingly devastating weather.
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