Food and Agriculture

New Report: Walmart’s Monopolization Of Local Grocery Markets

June 28, 2019 Stacy Mitchell, Ilsr.org Educate! Food and Agriculture, Monopoly, New Economy, Walmart

Our findings illustrate the failure of contemporary antitrust policy. For nearly four decades, the two agencies that enforce the antitrust laws, the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission, have given corporations like Walmart a free hand to use their size and financial might to consolidate markets. This lax approach was supposed to generate widespread benefits for Americans. Instead, it has left a remarkable number of places without a competitive market for even the most basic of daily needs.

Taking Farmers For A Ride

May 30, 2019 By Ben Lilliston, Commondreams.org Educate! Farming, Food and Agriculture, Trump Administration

Over the last year, President Trump has taken farmers on a roller coaster ride that’s finally gone off the rails. Escalating trade fights have kicked farmers, already mired in a five-year slump, in the gut. Now, the administration is working up a new trade aid package, while simultaneously opposing aid for farmers recovering from recent Midwest flooding. What’s going on? If there’s a plan, it’s hard to see from here. Just in the last few weeks, Trump tweeted a dramatic escalation in new tariffs on China, which immediately announced an escalation of tariffs on U.S. goods, including agriculture products.

US Economic War On Venezuela Targets CLAP Food Program Relied On By Millions

May 24, 2019 By Alexander Rubinstein, Mintpressnews.com Educate! Food and Agriculture, Latin America, Regime Change, Venezuela

CARACAS, VENEZUELA — The U.S. government is preparing to levy sanctions against officials associated with Venezuela’s food subsidy program known as CLAP, the latest in a long list of unilateral coercive measures against the country. The new sanctions follow a report by the Center for Economic Policy Research, which stated that 40,000 Venezuelans have died because of sanctions imposed by the Trump administration that prevent life-saving medicines and food from getting into the country.

The Complete History Of Monsanto, The World’s Most Evil Corporation

April 30, 2019 Hanzai E, Wakingtimes.com Educate! Corporations, Food and Agriculture, GMOs, Monsanto

Of all the mega-corps running amok, Monsanto has consistently outperformed its rivals, earning the crown as “most evil corporation on Earth!” Not content to simply rest upon its throne of death, atop a mountain of rotting corpses, it remains focused on newer, more scientifically innovative ways to harm the planet and its people. As true champions of evil, they won’t stop until…well, until they’re stopped! But what is Monsanto and how did they get to be so obscenely evil in the first place? I think that’s the best place to start this journey, so grab a few non-GMO snacks or beverages and let’s go for a ride into the deep, murky sewers of their dark past.

Born Out Of Occupy: Project 222

April 21, 2019 Alex Fan Moniz, Popular Resistance Organize! Food and Agriculture, Housing, Occupy, Water

To think that Project 222 was born with a bang. Real bang. Human dignity over spineless puppeteering. Winston was living in a tent at the time. It was the Fall of 2011, an eventful time around Pennsylvania Avenue. Thousands had massed and camped outside the White House gates. The Occupy Wall Street movement had spread like wildfire. DC would have to put an end to the cancerigenous economic injustices of America. The whole stratum had to be shaken off and rebuilt. Built anew. Winston had to do something meaningful. That was it, Project222.org: Every human being in America and the world had the right to live with a minimum of dignity: 2 gallons of clean water, 2000 calories a day, 200 ft3 of secure shelter.

Largest Private Sector Strike In Years – At Supermarkets Across Northeast

April 14, 2019 By Alexia Fernández Campbell, Vox. Resist! Food and Agriculture, Strike, Wages, Worker Rights

More than 30,000 grocery store employees in the northeastern US are refusing to return to work for the second day in a row. Cashiers and deli workers at Stop & Shop supermarkets walked off the job Thursday afternoon at 240 stores in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island, saying the supermarket chain is trying to slash their pay by hiking health insurance premiums and lowering pension benefits for new employees. The workers have been negotiating new jobs contracts with the company since January, according to their labor unions, which are part of the United Food & Commercial Workers Union International.

French Court Finds Monsanto Guilty Of Chemical Poisoning

April 14, 2019 Eat Local Grown. Resist! Food and Agriculture, Food Safety, health, Monsanto

In appeals court in Lyon, France has upheld a 2012 ruling against Monsanto, in which the agribusiness giant was found guilty of the chemical poisoning a farmer named Paul François. The grain grower said that in 2004 he became ill due to Monsanto’s weedkiller, Lasso. François claimed he suffered from neurological problems, memory loss, headaches and stammering after inadvertently inhaling the herbicide. In François’ case, doctors determined the cause of his ill health was monochlorobenzene, a highly toxic substance that made up 50 percent of Monsanto’s herbicide, according to teleSUR.

US Senate Fails To Restore Food Assistance For Puerto Rico

April 10, 2019 Julio Patron, Wsws.org Educate! Food and Agriculture, Puerto Rico, Senate

Since a factional battle broke out between Democratic and Republican parties last weekend, the US Senate has failed to pass a disaster relief bill that allocates federal money to recovery projects in all areas of the country recently affected by fires, floods, tropical storms and other natural disasters. The failure to approve this funding has left more than a million Puerto Ricans with drastically-reduced food stamp payments, one year and seven months after Hurricanes Maria and Irma struck the US territory.

EarthRx: The Irish Potato Famine Was Caused By Capitalism, Not A Fungus

March 27, 2019 By Ocean Malandra, Pastemagazine.com Educate! Capitalism, Famine, Food and Agriculture, Ireland

Put on the U2 and The Cranberries and let’s down some green brew folks, it’s that time of year again. But while St. Patrick’s Day is cause to celebrate everything Irish-American, it’s also a good time to ponder just why more than a million Irish were forced to leave Ireland while another million were dying of starvation in such a short period of time in the first place. The answer, which also explains why millions of children are currently going without enough food in the U.S., has much more to do with market systems than Mother Nature.

Farmers In Midwest Face Decades Of Recovery As Flooding Strips Away Crucial Soil

March 24, 2019 By Brian Kahn, Earther Educate! Climate Change, Flooding, Food and Agriculture

The Midwest floods continue to be a slow-moving disaster. Towns, farms, and infrastructure are still underwater in Nebraska, and water will take months to work through the vast network of rivers, creeks, and streams that drain the Upper Midwest into the Gulf of Mexico. The damage to the region could last much longer than that, though. It could require years to rebuild infrastructure, but the real challenge will be restoring the region’s greatest resource, the reason there are so many farms there in the first place: its soil.

Victory! Boston Challenges Corporate Control Of Our Food System

March 22, 2019 By Alexa Kaczmarski, Corporateaccountability.org Create! Boston, Corporations, Food and Agriculture, New Economy

Boston has taken a critical step forward to rebuild our broken food system and advance food justice across the city. On March 20, the city became the first on the East Coast to adopt a city-wide Good Food Purchasing Policy (GFPP) — a groundbreaking policy that helps build an equitable, local, sustainable food system. The policy directs the city to purchase food that meets robust labor, health, and environmental standards. This includes Boston Public Schools (BPS), one of the largest purchasers of food in the city — meaning that 56,000 schoolchildren in Boston will have healthier, more nutritious food available to them at school each day.

A Walk Through The Barrio, Catia, In Caracas, Venezuela

March 19, 2019 Ahmed Kaballo, Twitter. Educate! Bolivarian Process, Food and Agriculture, Venezuela

Today I went to Catia the biggest barrio in West Caracas with a population of 1.5 million. An amazing cultural trait that I've noticed in Venezuela is the way people walk up to me with no introduction and make political declarations. The 'CLAP; are government-subsidized food bags, which are up to 90% cheaper than market value and have been a lifeline for so many due to hyper inflation. The delivery and distribution is a true community effort and was a pleasure to witness and like so many community actions, women are at the forefront. The support for the government was undeniable. I provocatively asked one of the women, "Wouldn't live [sic] be easier if the opposition came into power, sanctions would be lifted and life would be less harsh." She cried in my face and explained that for her, the Washington-aligned opposition was the problem.

Citizen Currencies Strengthen Agricultural Supply Chains

March 18, 2019 Françoise Wautiez, Ripess.eu Create! Currency, Food and Agriculture, New Economy

This is the third issue of the series we started in October, on the theme of “local currencies”, after a general presentation of the advantages and challenges of local currencies through the example of the Leman currency (October 2018) and the avenues for collaboration and synergies between local currencies and sustainable food (December 2018), we propose today to reflect in terms of production/supply chains, for different types of agricultural products, and starting once again from the Geneva experience: from seed to production, from production to processing, from processing to distribution, from distribution to consumption.

‘Life Calm In Caracas, People Prepared For More Struggle’

March 17, 2019 By John Catalinotto, Workers World. Resist! Food and Agriculture, Housing, Sanctions, Venezuela

Our delegation made a short video today to talk about the situation of the people we have seen here in which everyone said that life in Caracas is going on. People were eating ice cream in the street. No one looked skinny, let alone starving, and people were treating each other with respect. The danger that still exists, as Eva Bartlett pointed out, is from the continued threats and actions by the U.S. government that disrupt Venezuelan society, plus the threat of military intervention. The people here are preparing for the next U.S. attack through their community councils, which are telling them to start storing food, water and batteries.

Investors Join Calls For A Food Revolution To Fight Climate Change

March 4, 2019 Georgina Gustin, InsideClimateNews.org Create! Climate Change, Food and Agriculture, New Economy, Revisionism

An influential group of investors has added its voice to a growing chorus of health professionals and scientists who are calling for radical changes to agriculture and food consumption in an effort to fight climate change, malnutrition and obesity. A handful of new reports emphasize that climate change and the world's worsening health are urgent, intertwined crises. One of them calls for an international treaty to address the problem. A scientific study published last month also shows how "food production shocks" linked to climate change have been rising globally, putting food security at risk.

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