Countries are placed on commodity crop production treadmills to earn foreign currency (US dollars) to buy oil and food on the global market (benefitting global commodity traders like Cargill, which helped write the WTO trade regime – the Agreement on Agriculture), entrenching the need to increase cash crop cultivation for exports.
Are mRNA vaccines being given to pigs in that even organic pork products have been infected with mRNA for the last five years? We are currently talking to many farmers and ranchers.
What are these “sovereign wealth funds”? How are they being used? What link, if any, do they have with people’s struggles around food sovereignty, land grabbing and today’s deepening climate crisis?
Due to trade deals, government support and WTO influence, transnational food retail and food processing companies continue to colonise markets around the world and push ultra processed foods (UPFs).
It’s doubtful the U.S. will allow for “doggy bags” to contain actual dog meat, especially after the Anthony Fauci beagle killing spree that caused a massive outcry, but they are moving full steam ahead on incorporating insects into food, and investors are lining up.
What is crucially being overlooked by most diagnoses of the current food crisis is how the problem does not lie in a lack of supply, or lack of market integration, but instead in how the food system is structured around power.
