The Think&EatGreen@School Project (T&EG@SP), is one of the most important programs we can support in healing a broken food system. LFS has left me optimistic about the future of food in Vancouver because it focuses on the promotion of organizations, programs and people in our community propelling a collective utopia for the future of our food. T&EG@SP is particularly crucial, as it repairs the lack of connection children have to their food, can lead to grave implications later on in life.
The passion and excitement the children have towards cooking and food makes the results of T&EG@SP promising; offering them positive activities surrounding topics such as growing food, eating healthy food, food citizenship, composting and land stewardship at this age undoubtedly has the potential to change who they become as adults. Most of the children in the T&EG@SP are within at quite formative ages, learning healthy behaviors now is extremely important, it is exciting to be a part of that!
My whole life I have been passionate about nutrition and I always thought that was the industry in which I would end up working. Now I am seeing, that although being a nutritionist is a noble profession, (my degree is in global nutrition), it can in some ways just be another ‘band-Aid solution’. People know what they are meant to be eating; but the bigger issue is: do they have access to it? Our government and the industrial food system are partly to blame for making the cost of non-food cheaper than real food. I am more attracted to growing my own food and helping others do the same rather than teaching them to read labels for the rest of their lives. The most effective way for our society to prevent diet related disease is to reconnect people to their food system. T&EG@S is on the right track!