... for the oppositions to the contemporary food system. A brief overview of lifestyles in the industrialised countries and history of the global food system in the periods that have seen the most rapid changes; post World War II, provide a platform for the beginning of the analysis of the food situation in the world today. In the countries of the global north, food is a taken-for-granted commodity in that it features in the minds of a majority of the population only when biology intervenes and reminds them of the need to eat to survive and based on the fact that it only accounts on average for a measly 13% of total family expenditure compared to greater than 32% for housing and roughly 19% for transportation according to the US census board's statistics for 1999. Food, especially nutritious food, has come to be the expendable item in the family's budget in ...

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