Dieting Will Always Fail in a Toxic Food Culture. Here’s How to Fix It.

Chris Newman
10 min readAug 21, 2021

I often think about my grandmothers and grandfathers.

Not the immediate ones that I knew or that reside in the living memory of my family, but rather the ones from a very, very long time ago. The grandmother that spoke a dialect of Lenape, the grandfather that couldn’t conceive of a money economy any more than we can conceive of anything…

Chris Newman

Building a new, accessible, open, and democratic food economy in the Chesapeake Bay region @ Sylvanaqua Farms