‘every law is made by their masters, who will never pass any thing prejudicial to themselves’.
“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.”
― A Foodie's Guide to Capitalism
― A Foodie's Guide to Capitalism
“Can farm programs ensure a stable, fair income for farmers and a healthy, affordable food supply? Of course they can. Unfortunately, capital is not invested in ensuring a fair income for farmers but in profiting from agriculture.”
― A Foodie's Guide to Capitalism
― A Foodie's Guide to Capitalism
“reformist proposals, like reducing and repurposing food waste to end hunger, never ask why people are poor or why the food system produces so much waste to begin with. Reformist policies do not challenge capitalist structures, like concentrated land ownership, the financialization of food and land, corporate concentration, or market fundamentalism. Nor do they consider whether it is socially just that a basic human need like food is considered a commodity,”
― A Foodie's Guide to Capitalism
― 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.”
― A Foodie's Guide to Capitalism
― A Foodie's Guide to Capitalism
“the phenomenon of hunger amid plenty, and so on. But most critical for understanding food in a capitalist food system is the fact that food is a commodity, valued not just as sustenance but as potential capital. Food has a use value (to feed people) and an exchange value (as a commodity).”
― A Foodie's Guide to Capitalism
― A Foodie's Guide to Capitalism
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