Largest Food Art In Quezon City

Environmental activists, health advocates, organic consumers and traders and policy makers celebrate Philippine’s rich and diverse agricultural heritage by forming a food art installation made out of 1,700 kilograms of ecologically produced fruits and vegetables at the Quezon City Memorial Circle. The food mandala, Sanskrit word for circle, harmony, balance and unity, also dramatized the call for the agriculture department to promote ecological agriculture instead of risky Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs).

Unique identifier: GP0STOO4T

Type: Image

Shoot date: 18/10/2014

Locations: Asia, Central Luzon, Metro Manila, Philippines, Quezon City, Southeast Asia

Credit line: © Jimmy Domingo / Greenpeace

Ranking: ★★★★★★ (B)

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Largest Food Art in The Philippines

Greenpeace organizes a colourful affair on the heels of World Food Day. The event saw participants creating a giant food Mandala made up of 1,000 kilos of common fruits and vegetables, spread out across 100 square meters of the Quezon Memorial Circle, making it the largest ‘food art’ in the country.
Mandala is Sanskrit for circle, denoting ‘wholeness’. The Mandala concept was used to demonstrate how Ecological Agriculture, a farming system that works in harmony with nature and bridges indigenous knowledge systems with developments in modern science and technology has long provided Filipinos
with safe, complete and diverse diets.

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