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What if your produce had a passport?
How far has your food traveled to reach your grocery store? How many people are involved in its voyage to your table? This project will document the impact global food distribution has on local agriculture and the people behind the food we eat
We live in an age of instant gratification—fast food, microwave dinners, out-of-season fruit in the dead of winter.
What if your produce had a passport? I want to put faces on those involved in the journey our food travels before arriving at our dinner table: everyone from the CEO of big businesses, the small farmer, the harvester, the illegal day laborer, the truck driver. This project will address the effects agribusiness and mass consumption has on our health and the future of our planet
My inspiration is Jane Goodall’s book, “Harvest For Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating,” which raises awareness of the choices we make.
Areas of interest:
• The Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway
• Millennium Seed Bank Project in England
• Factory farms in Texas
• The dying industry of family farming in the United States and the UK
• Child laborers in West African cocoa industry
• Food processing factories
• Distribution centers
• Corporate headquarters of major agribusinesses
