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What Would an Entirely Locally Grown Diet Look Like?
It was close to midnight, and I was at my stove heating up a vegan sausage. I had spent the afternoon and evening in Talparo at an event where one of the sessions explored the history of agriculture in Trinidad and Tobago. A question from the audience led to a conversation about just how much of the food we eat here is imported. A visiting American student shared that a professor had told them that imported food accounts for 90% of the population’s diet. I knew the number was

Ariann Mieka
Oct 152 min read
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