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🍜Since time immemorial, and in all societies, food has been a vector of social bonding. Sharing a meal means allowing someone else to enter our lives for a moment. Eating together affirms a sense of belonging, and binds a community together.
👨👩👧👦 So to deprive a man, a woman or a child of sufficient food is not only to deprive them of the very basis of their existence. It also deprives them of the social link and the recognition that they are part of our community.
Yet in Switzerland, thousands of people lack sufficient, healthy food. So how do we respond to this scourge? How can we consolidate our solidarity?
To find out, I went to meet :
🔸Veronique Eichenberger, director of the Fondation Mère Sofia, which distributes more than 250 freebies a day in Lausanne.
🔸Léa Winter, co-president of FIAN Switzerland, an NGO committed to the right to food.
🔭 And finally, we’ll be taking a trip to December 2040, to a French-speaking part of Switzerland where we’ve decided to take steps to ensure that the fear of not having enough to eat is no longer a reality.
Welcome to “Solidarity on our plates”, an episode of Chantal Peyer’s podcast “2040 j’y vais!
Interview and podcast concept: Chantal Peyer
Production: Sébastien Sommer
A few images from the Mother Sofia Foundation Soup Kitchen
References
– Fondation Mère Sofia
– FIAN Suisse
– Réseau mondial du droit à l’alimentation et à la nutrition
– The right to food in Geneva. Pour une transition juste vers des systèmes alimentaires durables, November 2024, Christophe Golay.
Further reading: recommendations from Payot booksellers
Would you like to find out more about this topic? Here are some recommendations from Pierre, bookseller at Payot Lausanne:
– Mangez les riches : la lutte des classes passe par l’assiette, Nora Bouazzouni, 2023.
– Je mange donc je suis: petit dictionnaire curieux de l’alimentation, Christophe Lavelle, 2021.
– Le restaurant de l’amour retrouvé, Ito Ogawa, 2015.
Support
The “2040, j’y vais!” podcast is made possible thanks to the support of the Giovannini Foundation, the canton of Vaud, the city of Fribourg, the city of Meyrin, HEKS Transform’Action Lab, One Planet Lab and Services Industriels de Genève. We would also like to thank our distribution partners: Impact Hub Lausanne-Geneva, the Swiss Business Federation and sanu.
