Remember how the pandemic revealed the fragility of our food system.
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Remember how the pandemic revealed the fragility of our food system. I had a discussion with a colleague today, who assumed more crisis situations like that could pressure the industrial agrifood. What happened in 2020? Exactly the opposite.
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Remember how the pandemic revealed the fragility of our food system. I had a discussion with a colleague today, who assumed more crisis situations like that could pressure the industrial agrifood. What happened in 2020? Exactly the opposite.
2020 was a horrific year for food security and health – but a boon for the biggest players in the agrifood industry. "In the midst of a global pandemic – combined with climate shocks, supply chain gridlock, price spikes, increasing hunger, food and energy shortages, civil strife, racial violence and wars – these Food Barons made the most of the converging crises in order to tighten their grip on every link in the Industrial Food Chain." https://www.etcgroup.org/files/files/food-barons-2022-full_sectors-final_16_sept.pdf
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2020 was a horrific year for food security and health – but a boon for the biggest players in the agrifood industry. "In the midst of a global pandemic – combined with climate shocks, supply chain gridlock, price spikes, increasing hunger, food and energy shortages, civil strife, racial violence and wars – these Food Barons made the most of the converging crises in order to tighten their grip on every link in the Industrial Food Chain." https://www.etcgroup.org/files/files/food-barons-2022-full_sectors-final_16_sept.pdf
We have to remember Naomi Klein's discovery that the current global paradigm of control (call it capitalism or whatever) thrives in crisis and catastrophe - what Klein called the Shock Doctrine.
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We have to remember Naomi Klein's discovery that the current global paradigm of control (call it capitalism or whatever) thrives in crisis and catastrophe - what Klein called the Shock Doctrine.
Another source to keep in mind is the work of epidemiologist Rob Wallace who has studied the many years of recurring virulent diseases in South East Asia - currently perhaps the most agriculturally exploited region of the world. Every time a new bird or swine flu burns through the livestock industry - and mind-boggling numbers of animals are killed and burned - you would think the very industrial paradigm that creates the breeding ground for those diseases would be hit.
