Food security and walls: Eliseo Perez-Alvarez

Dr. Eliseo Perez-Alvarez of the Lutheran Seminary Program in the Southwest explains how food is a major way of excluding or including marginalized people in the global community.

The interview was recorded after a visit to the Luther Haus, a museum in the former monastery where Martin Luther and his wife Katie lived in Wittenberg. There was a fascinating display on Katie's household management that followed the old mosastic tradition -- allowing the Luther household to be almost entirely food-sufficient.

Eliseo's presentation about food security in Mexico following the North American Free Trade Agreement was titled "The Tortilla Curtain: War on the Table of the Poor."