Our primary aim is to revive the collective consciousness consumed by the state and capital, which devaluates labor and nature, at the stage of production, to provide solidarity and to bring people together with healthy food by protecting nature.
We must know that if we leave food sovereignty to capitalism alone in this system, healthy food will be a dream. Because capitalism imposes the seed, medicine, chemical fertilizer, price that should be used on producers and makes the farmer addicted to himself. We defend traditional production against the industrial production style in food and put the producer and the consumer at the center of the system. We take the vehicle and traders out of the way, deliver them from the manufacturer to the consumer.
We advocate that consumers should know in what conditions, how and where the food consumed is produced. Unfortunately, this is not possible in industrial agriculture and industrial agriculture does not have such a problem and it will never happen. As a cooperative, we only buy the products of the producers in our region by conducting on-site inspections.
We advocate collective production against industrial production and solidarity oriented marketing against industrial marketing. Current hygiene laws and regulations on foods aim to exclude farmers from all rings of the food chain except the production link. This legal system, which is regulated according to the preferences of multinational supermarket chains, makes it impossible for farmers to process their own products, as well as other small-scale alternative enterprises such as butchers, greengrocers and groceries, threatening the existence of distribution channels, and subordinate to multinational agricultural companies and supermarkets. Today, by purchasing packaging rather than food, the consumer becomes condemned to products that are contained in beautiful packaging, but whose health is extremely endangered, and which have almost no nutritional value. Human life is measured by shelf life. Industrial agriculture does this through marketing and advertising fraud under the name of food safety and hygiene.
By defending the fair price policy against capitalist price policies, we see access to healthy, organic food as a fundamental right and remove it from the monopoly of the upper classes. We determine the purchase and sales price of our products together with our manufacturers. We never aim to create capital, we only share our income with the society by transferring it to cooperative funds.
We see labor not as an area of exploitation, but as an organizational area, we employ our women except for hard work, and we limit our employees’ weekly working hours to 39 hours for a humane life. We ensure the social security of our seasonal workers by making SSI entries. We create jobs by doing our harvest, product screening and packaging as much as possible.
While planting a plant, we argue that other creatures have the right to live in that soil.
We never pollute our soil with chemical fertilizers and medicines. We use cloth bags as packaging for pulses packaging. We make our cloth bags for our women in Pülümür and Ovacık district.