The world is subject to a global food system that could feed the world but doesn’t.
My name is Isabel Pasch, and I’m a bakery owner and a scientist. I grew up in Germany, a country that loves bread - we have over 350 different types, and I love to be able to share some of these with my customers at Bread and Butter Bakery. The place of bread in society can’t be denied.
A food so vital to man that it’s referred to in the Bible as the ‘body of the Lord’, and gives rise to customs, superstitions and sayings. We encourage people to 'use their loaf', work is their 'bread and butter', and we pay them in 'dough'. The ancient Egyptians’ word for bread, 'aish', also meant 'life', but much to my distress modern commercial bread is far-removed from the nutritional powerhouse that sustained our ancestors. The changes to bread provide a living example of the effects of Big Food on the global food system, and on our climate. Join me as we look at some of the issues around food security and climate change, from man’s earliest agricultural efforts through to the might of corporate giants that control much of the world’s food supply.
I call this bread politics. www.breadandbutter.co.nz