Food Studies Matter, Meaning, Movement Creative Poems for Pollniatoors, Andrea Elena Noriega

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CREATIVE POEMS FOR POLLINATORS ANDREA ELENA HONEY AND ALMONDS HONORING RELATIONSHIPS AND COMPANIONS Andrea Elena is an artist and University graduate with an MA in Applied , and ( in Anthropology specializing in food discourse related to health and wellness . Her artwork explores the between people and being , with particular interest in the role and food systems . ANDREA ELENA 257

STATEMENT We need to view creatures like bees not as objects ( ties and labourers ) but as subjects ( living beings ) Their tus needs to be elevated from the caste system that privileges human beings over animals . I believe that they , like other beings , should be regarded as persons , giving them rights that acknowledge their individuality and protect them from ture , illness , injury , enslavement , and death . Indigenous teachings provide an epistemological framework for interspecies relationships , one that the food tem and provides beings in the Westernized world are starting to be seen through anthropomorphism , allowing us to perceive the intrinsic of all living beings . This means seeing nature as ing the emergent ( a collective force ) for sentience and It also means trying to understand the lived experiences of other beings , and affording them the empathy , compassion , and deference we aspire to show to other human beings . Similarly , Indigenous offer highly progressive and advanced models for our daily attitudes and conduct toward other creatures . Implementing such an ethos within spaces of practice ( such as farming and agriculture ) can serve to enhance the overall outcomes of human actions , including improved yield , sustainability , diversity , and collective affects Nimo 2015 . 2013 . 2001 . 2015 . Stewart 2007 . 258 POEMS FOR POLLINATORS

Honey and Almonds The banality of evil resides in the idiosyncratic , it is , woefully , the little choices made . The existence of one may take the existence of another , but must that also entail an indentured servitude ?

With so many gifts from la , it seems , then , belligerent to steal , hoard , or take prisoner any of her iterations Sweet honey , a gift Nourishing almonds , a gift Bees busily producing , an honor to all of nature , not , indeed , an invitation to oppress and exploit Entitlement to gifts , disposable commodities , transactional , and disposable , incites a banality that does give rise to evil , but also to complacency , willful ignorance , and a regime of husbandry that is not an inherent right . Release the bees let them give gifts , not sacrifices ANDREA ELENA 259

Andrea Honoring Relationships and Companions Independent we fall , united , we . grow Sturdy and reliable , I am corn Nimble and giving , I am beans Cool and protective , I am squash A Whisper from the Wind , or visit from the bee brings new life Together , entangled , We bring to each other that which We can not bring for ourselves alone . We owe strength and resilience to the relationships we have We because of the championship , not in spite of it 260 POEMS FOR POLLINATORS

Andrea References Johnson , 2001 . Emergence The connected lives of ants , brains , cities , and software . New York Scribner . ANDREA ELENA 261 , 2013 . Braiding . weed Editions . Nimo , 2015 . The of Bees Industrial Farming and Colony Collapse ( Stewart , 2007 . Ordinary Affects . Duke University Press . 2015 . The Hidden Life of Tress What they feel , how they from a secret world . Vancouver Books . 262 POEMS FOR POLLINATORS