through food is an independent, grassroots media organization exploring the people, systems, and stories shaping what we eat.
Established in 2025, we create community-rooted media projects and features across the global food system. Our reportage and projects are supported through grants, independent sponsorships, and merchandise sales.
Amid burnout, brainrot, and bewilderment, we’re not here to tell you what tastes good. Rather, we’re here to show you who profits, who’s left out, and why power plays out on our plates.
WHY FOOD?
In “Canada”, fewer than one in five people live in rural areas where the vast majority of our country’s food supply and exports are grown. That distance can make it easy to forget where our food comes from, who makes it possible, and what it takes to get to us.
How we grow, trade, and consume food shapes the energy we bring to work, to others, and ourselves each day, often without acknowledging the full cost. But what if food could be used to invite us in to understand how the way we feed ourselves says more about who we are than we’d like to admit?
Right now the planet is buckling under the weight of our demands and desires. Yet the food system isn’t broken; it’s working precisely as intended, extracting finite resources at harmful rates because the pursuit of profit knows no bounds.
WHO WE ARE
through food was created and is run by Nathan Sing. He has reported across Canada and internationally on how fame influences culture and concentrates power, and the ways food connects us to nourishment and to one another.
Everything we make is produced by through food’s founding team, which includes Sing, Urbi Khan, and Anna Yurkovich.
What we do wouldn’t be possible without support from aligned grassroots organizations, community contributions, and collaborators who believe in our mission.
