Operational Briefing: Welcome to Eat Local or Starve Global

Something is deeply broken in how we feed ourselves.

A handful of corporations control the seeds, the supply chains, the grocery shelves, and increasingly the land itself. The global food system is a house of cards held together by diesel fuel and good intentions — and the people who actually grow your food are going under while the middlemen get rich.

This site exists because that has to change.

Situation Assessment

Industrial agriculture promises efficiency, but what it delivers is consolidation. Four companies control over 80% of meat processing in the U.S. Three firms dominate the global seed market. The result is a food system that is fragile, extractive, and hostile to the communities it claims to serve.

One port closure. One drought. One trucker shortage. That’s all it takes to empty your grocery store shelves. We saw it in 2020. We’ll see it again.

The Mission

Eat Local or Starve Global is an operational resource for building local food networks — before you need one.

We publish region-specific field guides that map out the farms, fisheries, markets, and preservation strategies for a given area. Not theory. Not activism. Intel.

What food sovereignty means in practice:

• Know your farmers. Not the brand on the package — the person who grew it, the soil it came from.
• Build local supply chains. When the container ships stop, your community still eats.
• Preserve and prepare. Canning, fermenting, freezing, foraging — the skills your grandparents had that you’re going to need.
• Share the intel. Every guide on this site is free to distribute. That’s the point.

What You’ll Find Here

Field Guides — Region-specific manuals for sourcing local food. We started with the New Hampshire Seacoast and Southern Maine. More theaters of operation are coming.

Dispatches — This blog. Situation reports from the field, analysis of the corporate food machine, and practical intelligence for anyone building local food resilience.

First Orders

The most powerful thing you can do right now is start local:

1. Find your nearest farmers market. Go this weekend.
2. Meet one farmer. Learn what they grow, when it’s in season.
3. Buy something you’d normally get from the grocery store — from them instead.
4. Tell someone else about it.

Food sovereignty isn’t an abstract ideal. It’s built one meal, one farm, one community at a time.

Welcome to the operation.