How Covid-19 Is Transforming Our Food System

Within just a few short months, the Covid-19 pandemic has transformed just about every facet of our society. That includes our food system, where the multiple impacts of the crisis are impossible to ignore. It’s changed how we shop for our groceries, how we think about the food we eat, and how we think about food waste. It’s altered how farmers sell and distribute their crops. It has decimated the restaurant industry, and has put essential workers, including food processing workers and farmworkers, at risk. And as unemployment soars during the crisis, it has amplified existing inequalities and insecurities in our system Terra Verde host and Earth Island Journal Managing Editor Zoe Loftus-Farren discusses the coronavirus pandemic and our food system with Evan Wiig, Director of Membership & Communications with the Community Alliance with Family Farms, and Yuka Nagashima, Executive Director of Food Shift, a project of Earth Island. The post How Covid-19 Is Transforming Our Food System appeared first on KPFA.