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Instead of taking chocolate or berries or coffee or bananas out of one cultural context and placing it in another for profit, we should instead recognize and respect the cultural contexts that our foods come from: who ate them and… Continue Reading →
“The Freedom Farm created a shared ownership model allowing cooperative members to “feed themselves, own their own homes, farm cooperatively, and create small businesses together in order to support a sustainable food system, land ownership, and economic development”, (Davy, 4)…. Continue Reading →
“Tinter was put in charge of dealing with food waste, and started the camp’s composting program. He went on to describe how the camp is about more than stopping the pipeline, “This is the fight to stop something bad and… Continue Reading →
“We had watermelon and champagne and Donald was a littler nervous about it but I told him that they probably meant American melons and corn likker. I told him I was sure there was nothing to worry about because the… Continue Reading →
“A just and democratic food system is not simply the end goal. Rather, it is also a strategic means to challenge the structures that impede the possibility of a just life for all peoples in every domain of life” (Elsheikh,… Continue Reading →
“Today these creatures have no more power. Animals have only their silence left with which to confront us. Generation after generation, heroically, our captives refuse to speak to us” (Coetzee, 25). “To defend our river, our land, our mother Mashpee,… Continue Reading →
Triggering Passages: The food system is unjust and unsustainable but it is not broken—it functions precisely as the capitalist food system has always worked; concentrating power in the hands of a privileged minority and passing off the social and environmental… Continue Reading →
Triggering Passages: “…but if people do not take into account the “gastronomic” side of things, they make the same mistake, in reverse, as gastronomes make when they talk about food without knowing where it comes from, confining themselves to learned… Continue Reading →
