ABSTRACT
This chapter describes four stages by which people have become divorced from the origins of human food: industrialization, globalization, supermarketization and dromology. People saw that the innovation of farming, replacing an earlier and simpler hunter-gatherer mode of life, set in train a complexification of society that led to specialist trades, government, army, a hierarchy of classes and much else. Central government as the agent with the most potential to curb obesity and promote healthy eating, and then examines the possible contributions from other organizations lower down the power chain, including local government, health providers, schools, the private sector, parents and how we ourselves can take greater responsibility for our diet and health. Ashram Acres, in the city of Birmingham, England, epitomizes many of the merits of urban agriculture. Set up in 1981, its aim was to utilize the agricultural expertise of local migrants from South Asia, the Caribbean and Ireland.
