Food is one of the key drivers of climate change: how our food is produced and arrives at our tables accounts for about half of all human-generated greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs). To understand the role of our current food system in climate change, we must examine it as a whole and not just simply as agricultural production. From chopping down trees in the Amazon for soy-based animal feed to sending refrigerated cargo across the planet, our highly industrialized and corporatized food system spews large quantities of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide while bringing hardship, death and destruction to too many families and communities.