A food dye from a South American fruit has become a test case for the ethical development of natural resources. LongReads
The road ends in Luz del Mundo. A few kilometers’ walk from here, just across the Chigorodó River, lies Polines, a scattering of open-sided houses on the edge of the forest. It’s a settlement of Indigenous Emberá people, about 80,000 of whom live in communities across Colombia and Panama. On a recent hot day, an Emberá man named Alirio Niaza scaled a large tree. Standing on one of the lower branches, he wielded a long pole with shears at the end.
“We use this for certain rituals,” says Gabriel Bailarin, who lives in Polines and is Emberá. A newborn child may be painted head to toe to ensure good health, he says. , the traditional healers, draw mountains, snakes, and other patterns, each with a different meaning, says Nataly Domicó, an Emberá woman who has studied Emberá traditional medicine. “The patterns are like a language on the body.
The man behind the project, Colombian entrepreneur Nicolás Cock Duque, says his business will help conserve biodiversity and improve people’s livelihoods in Colombia, breaking with the long history of exploitation of impoverished communities. It’s a novel effort that’s being closely watched in Colombia.
A couple of years earlier, a German researcher had told Cock Duque to look out for a stable, natural blue, something that has long eluded food companies. The industry has for decades largely relied on two synthetic blues: brilliant blue, also called blue No. 1, usually made from petroleum; and blue No. 2, derived from synthetic indigo, which is used to color Viagra pills, among other things.
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