Hacking the Food System: From Proprietary to Open Design | Food+Tech Connect

"Our food system is not broken- it is poorly designed.... A growing number of startups such as Real Time Farms and Foodtree are hacking the system to meet people’s growing demand for more information about who and how their food is produced. They are crowdsourcing previously unavailable data and packaging it in a format that helps consumers make more informed food choices. Others such as Yummly, Food Genius, Open Menu, and a group of us working on a Foodshed Open Data Standard are developing standards, formats, and ontologies for structuring various kinds of food data, making it easier to access, gain insights from, and share. Developers like John Mertens at Code for America are developing API’s for USDA data, transforming it into a format others can easily build upon...."