* Increasing numbers of undernourished and starving due to maldistribution of food.
* Limited access to nutritious food, resulting in obesity and behavioral disorders.
* Heightened dangers of human and environmental exposures to pesticides in food.
* Loss of diversity, soil productivity and arable land.
* High costs and low prices squeezing farmers out of a livelihood.
This list reads like a 21st-century litany of symptoms affecting our food system. But it might surprise you to learn that the People?s Food Commission actually identified these trends in 1980. In its groundbreaking report, The Land of Milk and Money, the commission linked human health and environmental issues with industrial food production, outlining the complex system around food for the first time.

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