Dignity, Democracy and Food: An Interview with Frances Moore Lappè
What is the balance between crisis and progress? Can food activism possibly keep pace with the food industry’s destructive swath?
What is the balance between crisis and progress? Can food activism possibly keep pace with the food industry’s destructive swath?
People seek to co-design food systems, to participate in shaping them, to recapture them. We were familiar with the slogan of workplace democracy; we must now open up our eyes to food democracy.
Food politics is often a major news story these days, so I would dispute the generalization that most consumers do not see food as political.
The movement needs to refocus on its basic mission of empowering and mobilizing communities in need of healthy food and economic justice.