She used these three adjectives as opposed to fast, large scale foreign production: three words associated with last century as a synonym of modernity, according to Ana Etchenique. She believes the Forum held in Krems, Austria meant the ratification of Food Sovereignty as “the common basis for different organizations and groups around Europe”.

“We will be able to build our future from this crisis based on food sovereignty. In my opinion this is a recession rather than a crisis”, she said.

“We are still in a terrible situation after the consumerism fever we have gone through and that stage of new rich where consumerism has colonized peoples’ minds” said Ana about the environment in Central Europe, in times of stock market crisis, unemployment and a xenophobic revival.

“When something is cheap, there usually is bad management behind it and people have realized that consuming something locally produced is more sustainable. People used to believe that by consuming products from abroad they supported the economies of the countries of the South and now we have realized that we have done quite the opposite. Such is the case of soy production in Argentina and Brazil”.

’Outrage’ is a flag of reaction to the crisis of the capitalist system and its direct and indirect effect on the successive administrations in the European countries.

Ana also emphasizes that the encounter of two generations in this change of paradigm has sparked the creation of consumer cooperatives and self-consumption farms in the Spanish cities. The young people in their twenties and their grandparents, usually who migrated from the countryside have special value.

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