About Decolonizing Nutrition

Resistance against colonial empires is nothing new. Groups have likely been oppressing others with government since government was invented. Colonization began ramping up in the second half of the 1000’s in Europe with their discovery of the Americas. Classical colonial empires peaked just before World War Two with most of the decolonization that gets talked about today being done in the later half of 1900’s. This blog will focus on the effect western imperial colonialism has had on indigenous food systems.