Authors: Alicia Martin PhD Student, Geography, University of Guelph and Amberley T. Ruetz Ph.D. Candidate in Geography and Arrell Food Scholar, University of Guelph T. Ruetz, Ph.D. Candidate in Geography and Arrell Food Scholar, University of Guelph
As some essential services like community gardens re-open and people start planting again, our connections to food are top of mind.
COVID-19 has shone light on many issues in our “just enough, just in time” food system. Stories about meat-packing workers and migrant labourers facing COVID-19 work hazards and other injustices have put a spotlight on the precarity of a globalized food system.