Food Voices: Stories of the Food Sovereignty Movement offers a platform for farmers and fishermen to convey their struggles and triumphs. Dairy farmers of Wisconsin, salmon trollers of Alaska, shell collectors of Ecuador, urban farmers of New York, and fishermen of Haiti share their efforts to protect and enhance their livelihoods. Simultaneously, they are maintaining the ability to provide food for their communities in a healthy and sustainable manner.
We are at a moment when regulations in the guise of food safety are preventing small-scale farmers from selling directly to the public. Family fishermen are quickly being pushed off their boats to make way for fishing rights to be traded on the stock market. At the same time, the local food movement is growing at a fantastic speed. We are at a critical crossroads. Food Voices aims to bring the voices of the unheard to the forefront of the food policy debate.