Belo Horizonte social club: where food is treated as a right, both farmers and urban residents benefit.

Alternatives Journal | September 22, 2003| | Copyright

SIT DOWN for a meal at the Popular Restaurant in downtown Belo Horizonte, Brazil, and you will be participating in a radical movement of food justice and democracy. The restaurant, owned and run by the local government, makes nutritious meals available and affordable to any who pass through its doors.

About 60 percent of the more than five thousand meals served there every day go to low-waged or unemployed workers since the restaurant is conveniently located by the central bus and subway terminals. But the restaurant's clientele also includes retirees and young ...

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