The Incredible Story of How Food Shapes Humanity
For more than three million years, food has shaped humanity. It fuelled our evolution, helped build our brains and bodies, inspired agriculture and trade, gave rise to cities and civilizations, and ultimately helped create the modern world.
Then, in just 0.002% of that journey, we transformed food more rapidly than at any other time in history. The result has been one of humanity’s greatest commercial achievements—but it also raises one of the most important questions of our time.
Food and Us explores this remarkable journey—from our evolutionary beginnings to today’s global food system—and asks how we can create a future that better aligns food with
human health. society and the planet.
The Incredible Story of How Food Shapes Humanity
For more than three million years, food has shaped humanity. It fuelled our evolution, helped build our brains and bodies, inspired agriculture and trade, gave rise to cities and civilizations, and ultimately helped create the modern world.
Then, in just 0.00296 of that journey, we transformed food more rapidly than at any other time in history. The result has been one of humanity’s greatest commercial achievements—but it also raises one of the most important questions of our time.
Food and Us explores this remarkable journey—from our evolutionary beginnings to today’s global food system—and asks how we can create a future that better aligns food with
human health. society and the planet.
The story has only just begun.
Explore the book through nine interconnected themes that reveal how food shaped humanity—and how humanity transformed food. From our evolutionary beginnings to today’s global food system, each theme offers a different perspective on one of humanity’s most remarkable stories.
A short film exploring the extraordinary relationship between food and humanity.
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