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Even with all the efforts for change from political, medical and public health communities, change ultimately begins at home. Consumers must begin to educate themselves and take action toward making healthier more just food decisions.
Children face enormous health risks because of the current system; therefore addressing child nutrition in government entities and in the home is critical to foster a new generation that will hopefully make conscious food choices.
Food change can easily begin at the community level with community gardens. Not only do these gardens increase food access, but they also transform neighborhoods in need of something beautiful and positive to identify with.
Building a hyper local food system will ensure food security for everyone in the urban core, with local farmers once again supplying the city's demand with healthy produce.
Healthy food practices also involve considering the conditions of food workers. Though food security is a human right we all should enjoy, the workers who grow, sell, cook and serve our food often suffer great injustices.
L.A.'s food insecurity problem addresses issues of access, majorly for people in under-served communities. Learn about the conditions in which under-served communities access food in L.A.
The history agriculture in Los Angeles, as a catalyst for development, illustrates the strengths of the city's past as well as a blueprint for diversifying the current food system and thus improving community health.
The daily cyclist in this supposedly "bike-unfriendly" city gains a command of quiet back streets like 4th, the backbone of so many of my own trips. The…