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  • From: John D'hondt <dhondt@eircom.net>
  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Sustainable Ways to Feed the World Are Subverted by Corporations
  • Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 20:22:18 +0100

It may be a short future for it is also a race to the bottom, ever faster. As long as we are in free fall we are fine but arriving will hurt.
John

On 14/05/15 00:53, herb farmer wrote:

thank you for seeing it clearly.

years ago Frances Moore Lappe concluded the hunger problem isn't about growing enough food; it's about making it UNaffordable to a couple billion of the poorest. lands that used to be theirs to live on was worth more to nameless corporations as developments or Big Ag. still, 80% of the world's food is produced not by corporate Ag but by smallholders without money. and the landlless millions left swell the slums of the world's most overcrowded cities.

it's the future, folks


On 5/13/2015 4:43 PM, John D'hondt wrote:
There is only one single thing corporations are interested in : maximise profits. That is also the one thing they are obliged to do under the law.

"Sustainable ways to feed the world" may be a nice battle cry to fool the innocent but nothing more than that. And if there is most profit in letting the world starve via unsustainable ways (an that is exactly what is happening over a major part of the globe) then that is what they go for.
John

On 13/05/15 14:15, herb farmer wrote:

Sustainable Ways to Feed the World Are Subverted by Corporations http://newsjunkiepost.com/2015/01/03/sustainable-ways-to-feed-the-world-are-subverted-by-corporations/#sthash.sSXIOfVa.dpuf

Organic industry structure: many of the supposedly organic farms actually belong to agroindustry giants http://newsjunkiepost.com/2015/01/03/sustainable-ways-to-feed-the-world-are-subverted-by-corporations/#sthash.sSXIOfVa.dpuf http://newsjunkiepost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Organic2014.pdf

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