Episode 176: Food to Reconnect
About the Podcast
For today’s episode, Clancy speaks with Ora Kemp. She is a food security advocate with wide experience in food security networks, community-based programming, and public health research to develop policies centered around equitable design. You won’t want to miss their discussion about how colonialism has stolen food freedom from Indigenous cultures and how food can reconnect people to the land, other people and the community. Enjoy the show!
About Ora Kemp
Ora Kemp is currently pursuing a PhD in Food Studies with a research focus on equitable food policies and the morality of hunger. She has a background in regulatory affairs, foodscape research, emergency food, nutrition education and stakeholder partnerships at City State, and Federal levels.
Discussion Takeaways
- Food is a place where we gather. It was that one place where all of us were able to find some sense of peace.
- Upstreaming for nutrition is realizing that we are shaping how people connect to the land, food, and the people who grow and cultivate it.
- People are so dependent on an industrialized food system to provide for us.
- The idea of gardening today, where things grow in very controlled and constrained environments, is counterintuitive to how many cultivate their food in more diverse and biodiverse spaces.
- Food is deeply tied to people's history and culture, especially within more diverse groups and indigenous communities, carrying significant history.
- Sterilized food forces people to conform to something very unnatural.
#1 tip to improve access to healthy food
Reconnecting with the recipes of your heritage is a powerful way to reclaim your history and identity. These dishes, passed down through generations, carry the flavors of home and offer a deep sense of belonging.
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