[ShareTompkins] How the Great Food War Will Be Won

[Allison Wilson]

Dear All

Published Today (Jan 12th) on Independent Science News

How the Great Food War Will Be Won
By Jonathan Latham, PhD
http://www.independentsciencenews.org/environment/how-the-great-food-war-will-be-won/

Synopsis: Major agribusiness corporations, such as Monsanto, Cargill, ADM, and Syngenta desire to fully control the global food system. Unfortunately for them, they are held back by an image problem. As most people know, food produced with their assistance is inferior in every respect. However, there is one category in which they can plausibly claim superiority over other methods. That superiority is yield. Consequently, agribusiness has directed intense efforts at framing yield as the defining element of successful modern agriculture. Most especially, they have tried to leverage this advantage into a moral issue with their insistence that only food produced by industrial methods can feed the world. These companies believe their very existence depends on public acceptance of this claim.
	The very interesting fact in this equation is that agribusiness' claim is entirely baseless. It can be easily shown that every continent has a superabundance of food and, moreover, that the major threat to future food production is industrial food production methods themselves. As a consequence, those who oppose the global industrialisation of food and agriculture have a massive political opportunity.
	By revealing the food shortage lie they could collapse industrial agriculture's longstanding rationale and also its remaining public support. This example could also show the way for a new mode of environmental and social justice campaigning.

Apologies for cross-posting. Please share this article. 

Best wishes and thank you.
Jonathan

Jonathan Latham, PhD
Executive Director
The Bioscience Resource Project
Ithaca, NY 14850 USA

www.independentsciencenews.org
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www.bioscienceresource.org

jrlatham at bioscienceresource.org
Skype: jonathanlatham2
Tel: 1-607-319-0279

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