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| Wal-Mart is one of a handful of corporations that control what ends up on our dinner tables. (photo: Reuters) |
27 February 12
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is no longer news that a few powerful corporations have literally
occupied the vast majority of human sustenance. The situation is
perilous: nearly all of human food production, seeds, food processing
and sales, is run by a handful of for-profit firms which, like any
capitalist enterprise, function to maximize profit and gain ever-greater
market share and control. The question has become: What do we do about
this disastrous alignment of pure profit in something so basic and
fundamental to human survival?
It is time - now, not next year - to de-occupy
Walmart. And Archer Daniels Midland. And Tyson Foods. And Monsanto. And
Cargill. And Kraft Foods. And the other large corporations that decide
what ends up on our plates. Take all our money out, public and personal,
from our shopping dollars to school district lunch contracts to the
corporate subsidies that uphold these firms' grip on our food supply,
and invest it in a new system that's economically diverse and
ecologically sustainable.
These corporations' stranglehold over food has wreaked
havoc on the environment, our health, farmers, workers, and our very
future. It is time for an end to Big Food, and a societal shift to
something radically different. We all deserve a future where what we eat
feeds community and land, instead of eroding soils, polluting water and
air, and tossing away small farmers and immigrant workers as if they
were balance sheet losers. READ MORE
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