A Festival of Light in Tallinn, Estonia 2009
Anyone who has ever worked in a large multinational or government bureaucracy may appreciate this quote from EF Schumacher:
“The most striking thing about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little. Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree that surpasses one’s ordinary powers of imagination. Its inefficiency therefore remains unnoticed.”
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The ‘slow food’ movement is a healthy reaction to modern patterns of food production and consumption. Its philosophy asserts a right to pleasure, as well as acknowledging the connections between ‘plate and planet’. While there are benefits where production processes can be standardized, fragmented and sped up, the human losses are subtle, even invisible.