A critical mass for real food
This, a doorway in West Africa’s Elmina Fort, is a Door of No Return. It is the last part of Africa you would touch if you were a slave being led from the dungeon to a waiting ship.
If the logic of the industrial system is based on profit, the logic of real food is founded on respect and balance. Real food isn’t opposed to profit, but it is opposed to profits that aren’t shared fairly with those who work the hardest to feed us. The Door of No Return represents what’s we’re up against: a global industrial food economy 500 years in the making that exploits both people and land.
August 8, 2012