Johnnie

“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

“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

“Modern-day conflicts over the patenting of life (known as genome property), corporate personhood, privatized water, and land grabs have their roots in centuries-long processes of wealth accumulation, state-making, and imperial expansion. The struggles over resources have been accompanied by heated debates over the social, economic, and ethical justification of private property. These historical arguments go to the core of political and economic power.”
― Eric Holt-Giménez, A Foodie's Guide to Capitalism

“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