47: The New Grocery Movement: Food, Power, and Policy

The Future Herd · Oct 19, 2026 · 1h 17m

Rebecca MacLeod, leader of the New Grocery Movement, argues that food insecurity in Canada is a policy decision — with roughly one in four people food insecure and income inequality as the main driver — and that fixing it requires both legislative change like a basic income and farmer supports, and bottom-up community organizing that rebuilds the local food infrastructure commercial grocery has eroded. She makes the case for public, not-for-profit grocery stores and neighbourhood food hubs as a genuine alternative that treats food less as a consumer transaction and more as a vehicle for…