It is precisely the duty of those aware of structural food capitalism and labour oppression, and those who can afford to, NOT to shop in supermarkets. Leave those who have no choice out of it!
Some have no choice to work or shop there. But we do! Get out of them! Stop cultural gatekeeping and social posturing! Start investing more time and money in responsible producers and regenerative methods!
Supermarkets Are OUT OF CONTROL. Unsafe in covid times! Price racketing! Plastic barons! No culturally appropriate foods! No wholefoods! Get the heck out! Abolish them all!
Why do we not care about the air miles of our foods? Why do we not care about the labour exploitation? Why do we not care about pesticides and soil destruction? Is it so inconvenient to not shop in supermarkets? To not give them your money? To actively seek better alternatives?
You don't need to know exactly the road map out of institutional food dependence but I'll give you some clues: social canteens, urban growing projects, preserving abundance, community composting, trading and redistributing surplus, better paid organic farmers, more landworkers!
Abolish supermarkets. They depend on racial and class capitalism. They uphold global wealth inequality and worker oppression. They price fix, pay out billions to shareholders and let millions of tons of fresh food rot.
Every time you buy something in plastic, more oil is drilled and carbon produced to replace it, and more indestructible material is sent round the world on a boat or burnt
The lifecycle of a plant does not end when it is harvested. Community-grown produce is a precious resource, we need to preserve that shit!
Being in Valencia, where food justice and citizen resistance are inextricably linked, makes me very concerned about British cognitive ignorance around food production, labour oppression and neoliberal values
if you run a food growing project, make sure you book your local fermenter to run a workshop.
We need local gardeners, fermenters, cooks and foragers paid for by each council. They could supervise and steer food through the area, managing energy and fair labour, and providing tutorship for the wider community.
Community Food Justice networks like NFS have sustained enormous food aid responses throughout pandemic, now they are moving into a new phase of practical education (community cooks training) and horizontal organising (sociocracy and consent-based decisions). WATCH!
You don't need to know exactly the road map out of institutional food dependence but I'll give you some clues: social canteens, urban growing projects, preserving abundance, community composting, trading and redistributing surplus, better paid organic farmers, more landworkers!
Fermentation is not "my" practice. It belongs to the peasants and indigenous ppls that have created them to survive and passed them on in generosity over generations. It belongs to the lactobacillus, acetobacteria, aspergillae, wild yeasts. I'm just a steward, an observer.
we're so consumer-pilled the only possible outcome of developing new ferments is to celebrate seeing them on the shelves of the supermarkets which continually oppress the descendents of those who invented them
I am shocked but not surprised that the "new frontier" of fermentation is as susceptible to capitalism as any other greenwash fad. These thousand-year old survival techniques do not belong to us! We need to pass them on without claiming anything!
Question: How can we help ppl integrate more fermented foods into their diet without a) blinding them with science or b) making them buy something expensive Answer: make information & tools for home fermenting accessible, and pass on knowledge that never even belonged to us
Creative Careerism: The hobby to jobby pipeline is the futile attempt to eternally recreate the feeling of being an excited amateur while gradually sucking all joy from work and mechanising your own human touch
love is the opposite of capitalism; it embodies the abundances we are told are scarcities
I'm no scientist, but rejecting processed foods and diversifying diet with fermented foods is one way I've avoided getting ill for the last half decade
less consumption this xmas = less contact and transmission between public, less dangerous working conditions in factories and supermarkets, less planned obsolescene and landfill, less money to line tory pockets