Are strong traditional food habits a defence against Western eating patterns?
It’s hard to explain why there’s been an explosion of diabetes in India without saying that traditional dietary habits are flying out the window… For every dollar that’s spent promoting food that is good for you, $500 is spent promoting junk food… When you’re faced with that amount of money even traditional diets, traditional cultures, can’t withstand the onslaught. The local food movement — eating food grown locally rather than trucked from far away — is growing in America. Is it possible to eat local food in a big city? I live in San Francisco, which is a big city. Even there we have a number of farmers’ markets. The food is fresh and local and seasonal. We’re even growing some food in our part of town. In front of City Hall we dug up the land and started farming vegetables — basically urban gardeners. The city has no problem with you using public land? They fully endorse it. San Francisco is very keen to become a very green city… It’s win-win-win all the way round. In Britain, f
