Benjamin Lorr
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The Secret Life of Groceries
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In the grocery aisles, we often confront our desires and our doubts.
What we eat says more about us than we often realize.
The modern grocery store is a microcosm of our society.
The supply chain is a web, knotted and tangled, yet it holds our economy together.
We have a relationship with food that is more complicated than we often acknowledge.
In the world of groceries, nothing is as simple as it seems.
Shopping for groceries can be an act of resistance against a homogenized food culture.
Every item on the shelf has a story, a journey that reflects our values and choices.
The journey from farm to table is a complex web of connections and unseen labor.
Behind every product is a network of labor, a chain of human effort that is rarely acknowledged.