Food & Politics

However you look at it, food is political.

Food production and distribution are increasingly controlled by a few corporations. Land and laborers are exploited to produce more with less. Decreased quality and a diet composed of increasingly processed foods sit at the root of health epidemics across the developed world. In the past century, rising prices of basic ingredients have sparked revolutions and control over agricultural land has been the catalyst for coup-de-etats.

We get to choose, 3 times a day, what we put on our plates. We can choose to support local community and resist corporate power or line the pockets of Big Food. We can choose to nourish ourselves with whole foods within a system designed to make us sick. Actually, that’s pretty radical.