Think Like You Eat: The Taste of Resistance

The homogenization of taste is merely the final link in a process that tends to flatten what has made life on this planet possible for millennia: biodiversity.

The reason lies in a dense web of economic and social choices that have led to the concentration of agrifood production in a handful of areas, turning our food—from seed production to animal breed genetics, from processing to distribution—into a commodity in the hands of a few multinationals and, increasingly, under the control of investment funds. Nothing could be further from the land and the needs of communities.

Thinking about what we eat means being aware of what lies behind our food, but also reclaiming the consciousness that it is our choices that shape the market, that we can still decide which economy to support with our purchases and that there is a real possibility of changing course.

Speakers: Julian Baggini, Elisabetta Recine and Eric Schlosser