Tuesday, 13. December 2011
Topic: food - on December 13, 2011 at 10:25:00 AM CET
Occupy the Food System
The world can feed itself, without corporate America's science-experiment crops and expensive chemicals.
Farmers have been through this before — our lives and livelihoods falling under corporate control. It has been an ongoing process: consolidation of markets; consolidation of seed companies; an ever-widening gap between our costs of production and the prices we receive. Some of us are catching on, getting the picture of the real enemy.
The "99 percent" are awakening to the realization that their lives have fallen under corporate control as well. Add up the jobs lost, the health benefits whittled away, and the unions busted, and the bill for Wall Street's self-centered greed is taking a toll.
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