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Who Owns Nature? Corporate Power and the Final Frontier in the Commodification of Life

Who Owns Nature? Corporate Power and the Final Frontier in the Commodification of Life | YOUR FOOD, YOUR HEALTH: Latest on BiotechFood, GMOs, Pesticides, Chemicals, CAFOs, Industrial Food | Scoop.it

- ETC Group: WE WERE WARNED...IN 2008...HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

Three decades ago, humanity had a problem; science had a fascination; and industry had an opportunity. Our problem was injustice. The ranks of the hungry were expanding while the ranks of farmers were thinning. Meanwhile, science was fascinated by biotechnology – the idea that we could genetically engineer crops and livestock (and people) with traits that could overcome all our problems. Agribusiness saw an opportunity to extract the enormous surplus value that was laced throughout the food chain. The hugely decentralized food system held pockets of profit just crying out to be centralized.  All the biotechnology industry had to do is chase away the competition and coerce governments into surrendering control. .... http://www.etcgroup.org/content/who-owns-nature-0

FULL DOWNLOADABLE REPORT: http://www.alt.no-patents-on-seeds.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=80&Itemid=42

STOP ‘MONSANTOSIZING’ FOOD, SEEDS AND ANIMALS!

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For Farmers Everywhere, Small is (Still) Beautiful

For Farmers Everywhere, Small is (Still) Beautiful | YOUR FOOD, YOUR HEALTH: Latest on BiotechFood, GMOs, Pesticides, Chemicals, CAFOs, Industrial Food | Scoop.it
Whether you’re worried about hunger, social crises, or climate change, the solution is the same: small-scale farming.

 

There is battle raging across the world over who can better feed its people: small-scale farmers practicing sustainable agriculture, or giant agribusinesses using chemical fertilizers and pesticide

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