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Founded in 1980, Food Not Bombs is an all-volunteer global movement dedicated to non-violence, that seeks to highlight the connection of all forms of oppression against humans, animals and the environment by sharing surplus vegan and vegetarian food in public places, caring for those most affected by poverty and hunger. We caught up with co-founder Keith McHenry to find out why food is such a powerful tool in facilitating systemic change and building community, and how each one of us can make a difference. BarefootVegan | 74
“Opposition to control of food is clearly one of the most important movements of our Food Not Bombs promotes peaceful, compassionate action to help those in need. Who would you say has been instrumental in helping to shape your personal philosophy? I was blessed to visit the traditional Hopi Indians in Northern Arizona at a time when this sacred land was as it had been for thousands of years. My grandfather was friends of the Hopi elders and we attended the Snake Dances at Old Oraibi. My family saw the cement foundation of Glenn Canyon Dam being poured and saw the desert area and the ancient Anasazi ruins before the dam blocked the Colorado River flooding this sacred land forming Lake Powell. A few years later my father gave me a copy of Walden by Henry David Thoreau. I read his essay “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience” and it touched me. His war that he refused to pay taxes for was with Mexico but in my day it was with the people of Vietnam. When I was a teenager I hatched 50 eggs under my bed at my mother’s farm on Cape Cod. They were beautiful little fuzzy chicks. It wasn’t long before 25 of the chicks grew into huge roosters. My father announced it was the day I needed to learn how to butcher the roosters so I tied seven cords, hammered seven nails into a tree branch near our barn and grabbed seven roosters from the chicken coop. I hung them upside down looping the cord around their legs. When I stabbed them in the roof of their mouths ending each one’s life the hens, other roosters, goats and barn cats freaked out. That is all it took to become a vegan advocate. What were the key aims of Food Not Bombs when it was founded? And how would you say these aims have evolved as the organisation has matured? The eight of us that started Food Not Bombs in 1980 wanted to introduce the public to the idea that the violence of war was linked to the violence of poverty, racism, sexism, animal exploitation and the commodification of the Earth. We also time.” wanted to share our idea that we could bring an end to hunger, war, poverty, exploitation and coercion if we ate a plant-based diet, built society on a foundation of direct democracy and mutual aid. We were influenced by Frances Moore Lappé’s book “Diet for a Small Planet,” Emma Goldman’s memoir, “Living My Life” as well as movements to stop nuclear power and the nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union, the wars in Central America and campaigns to promote solar and wind power, organic plant-based diets and non-hierarchical ways of organising. We were also interested in the arts and influenced by Judith Malina, Julian Beck and The Living Theatre, The Bread and Puppet Theater in Vermont, Laurie Anderson, Peter Gabriel and the anarcho punk scene. M.I.T. professor Noam Chomsky and Boston University professor of American History Howard Zinn were also important influences. The importance of our work with Food Not Bombs hit me the morning of October 16, 2014 when I was in Des Moines, Iowa for a speech I was invited to give at the protest against the World Food Prize. While eating a vegan breakfast at the Catholic Worker House I read an Op-Ed in that day’s Des Moines Register. An article written by Charles H. Rivkin, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs titled “Feeding our Growing Planet by Opening More Markets” Just as Frances Moore Lappé and her group Food First showed the problem of world hunger is not scarcity, but that food is a commodity controlled by those who seek to profit. I told the protesters that the policies promoted by Assistant Secretary of State, Charles Rivkin, and the BarefootVegan | 75
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