sweet as a strawberry
photography
2010
exploring the right to reconnect, or the right way to reconnect.
this is a salient issue that has been affecting my everyday life for a decade; a food alive.
the conditions that surround food production, is more than "an everyday experience on the farm" it is more than "how to kill and how to enjoy the killing, if it is an enjoyment, and by whom?"
The conditons are symptomatic of fundamental challenges in contemporary society, ranging from the impact
of global trade and economic liberalisation to ownership over natural resources and larger environmental issues.
do you want to ask
"how can you make your child see this"
"Food has long been a focus of social and political movements in many parts of the world; food is a potent symbol of what ails society, a way of making abstract issues like class or exploitation into a material visceral reality.
– Richard Wilk, Fast Food/Slow Food: The Cultural Economy of the Global Food System, (2006)
