Food security, food safety and access to healthy food in Europe are all attainable, but not under the current food system. The industrialisation, hyper-globalisation and monopolisation that underpin the current system make it a self-defeating structure, driving deforestation, species extinction, health crises, soil depletion and climate breakdown. These characteristics also make for a system that is fragile in the face of global pressures, as demonstrated by the supply chain disruption resulting from Russia’s war in Ukraine and Covid-19. If the current food system is left to continue, and inevitably exhaust itself, the dire consequences already being endured by our generation will only get worse. Already, over 13 million people across the EU face moderate to severe food insecurity, with the trend rising since 2015. Most affected are women, children, and marginalised groups. Such entrenched systems can feel like an unchangeable reality. But we can choose otherwise. We can diversify the food we eat and decentralise the systems of production and consumption to make our food system resilient, secure and safe. This is hardly radical when compared to the current growth-atall-costs driven system that is wrecking the planet and threatening food security in the longterm for ever more people