FOOD FASCISM

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+ FOOD FASCISM

" One company controls 95% of the GM seeds sold anywhere in the world:

Monsanto. Most of the food traded in the world today is controlled by

5 grain giants; about 50% is controlled just by Cargill. So you might

look at soya - geneticallly engineered soya growing in Argentina or

Brazil -- and here in Europe you might think 'Oh, that's Brazilian

soya'. No! It's Monsanto's seed and Cargill-traded. Only the land, the

soil of Brazil was used. The control is of agribusiness. The control

is by the seed corporation and the biotechnology industry...

 

" So while the prices of food have gone up 50%, the profits of these

corporations have literally gone up 100%... Five giant seed companies,

five giant grain-trading companies: we are talking about control that

humanity has never experienced in its history.

 

" Italy had a Mussolini, Germany had a Hitler. The world has now the

ten giant corporations controlling our food system, creating a food

fascism. Food fascism means an end to food, just like fascism in

Europe meant an end to freedom. "

-- Video interview with Dr Vandana Shiva, vice president of Slow Food

International, at:

http://multimedia.slowfood.it/index.php?method=multimedia & action=zoom & id=24084

 

 

“We now know that a neo-conservative is an arsonist who sets the house on fire

and six years later boasts that no one can put it out.†- Bill Moyers