‘A Seat at the table’, 2018
Shown at the St. Olaf Juried Art Show, 2018
'A Seat at the Table' overview
“Only 8% of Black Americans live in a community with 1 or more grocery stores. (Compared to 31% of White Americans.) It is increasingly clear we live in a two tiered food system.”
“With produce, about ¼ of each $1 goes to the farmer, and $0.08 of the $1 goes to the farm worker.”
“Simply providing access to clean water could save 2 million lives a year.”
“½ the hospital beds in the world are occupied by people with an easily preventable waterborne disease.”
“Those with the highest consumption of federally subsidized foods have a 37% higher risk of becoming obese.”
“The vast majority of agricultural subsidies go to commodity crops that are processed into unhealthy foods.”
“1 in 4 Baltimore residents lives in a food desert.”
“25% of all farmworkers live in poverty.”
“In NYC, 1.4 mill. are food insecure.”