Daphne Miller

The True Cost of Food

These days I’m focused on the true cost of food. We have the cheapest food in the world. Food purchases make up something like 8% of our GDP. But when you start to factor in all the chronic diseases and environmental impacts—the health footprint of food—then all of a sudden we have the most expensive food in the world. Not 8% but 25% or higher. How is it we have something that is so cheap but so expensive?

September 27, 2017

Society

The Surprising Healing Qualities … of Dirt

But it might be the soil where our food is grown, rather than the food itself, that offers us the real medicine.

December 9, 2013

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