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Even when one’s concerns are thus wider than those of one’s mere self, the market posture is greedy and fearful in that one’s opposite-number marketeers are predominantly seen as possible sources of enrichment, and as threats to one’s ...more
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“If the state is not providing them with any benefits, why should they? Coercion will work for a while, but unless there is a social contract, force is unsustainable in the long run. So the question was—and still is—how can the state reconcile the private ownership of the production of essential goods and services with the public good?”
Eric Holt-Giménez, A Foodie's Guide to Capitalism

“The ability to apply nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium to agricultural soils eliminated the practices of cover cropping, inter-cropping, and relay-cropping with legumes. This separated grain cultivation from livestock production, leading to monocultures and feedlots.”
Eric Holt-Giménez, A Foodie's Guide to Capitalism

“Torture a single chicken and you risk arrest. Abuse hundreds of thousands of chickens for their entire lives? That’s agribusiness.”
Eric Holt-Giménez, A Foodie's Guide to Capitalism

“The Global South went from a billion dollars in yearly food exports in the 1970s to importing 11 billion dollars a year in food by 2001.”
Eric Holt-Giménez, A Foodie's Guide to Capitalism

“Agriculture under capitalism has a tendency to overproduce; for the last half century the world has produced 1.5 times more than enough food to feed every man, woman, and child on the planet. Overproduction in the Global North has led to a steady decline in the price of agricultural commodities. Commodities in most industries are manipulated by a handful of monopolistic corporations that try to avoid “price wars” between each other.”
Eric Holt-Giménez, A Foodie's Guide to Capitalism

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