[All] Fwd: alarming report on "Corporate Food Crusade" from Davos last week.

[Norah & Richard]

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The poor may not have much money, but since they are the fastest growing
sector of the sagging global economy, they represent an important new
market for the monopolies of the corporate food regime. Claims of
“farmer and entrepreneur empowerment” need to be balanced with how well
agribusiness and giant retail have “empowered” family farmers and local
businesses in the US and Europe… sooner or later, just about everyone
ends up going out of business in the corporate race to the bottom line.

The flurry of reports coming out of Davos should come as no surprise. A
new wave of global food riots has sparked serious rebellions in the
autocratic regimes of Tunisia and Egypt. World leaders are worried that
more food riots could lead to more political crises. After three years
of failed “food summits” held by governments, the World Bank, FAO and
UN, the World Economic Forum had to come up with something to offer the
world. They invented the Corporate Food Crusade."


	

	

	

	

	

	

	

	

	

	

	



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