Industrial Ag Is Poisoning the World — and Causing a Global Hunger Pandemic

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/industrial-ag-planetary-human-health-emergency/

By destroying the ecological web of life, the social web of community and the ecology of the human gut microbiome, the industrial globalized food system has created a planetary and human health emergency.

The web of life is a food web woven by Pachamama through her self-organization, creativity, generative power and regeneration.

Food is nourishment. Good food is health. Food is the flow that embodies our relationship to the Earth, materially, biologically, nutritionally, ecologically.

Food is the currency of life which flows from biodiversity in living soil, through plants and insects, to sustain the biodiversity in our gut microbiome.

It is the connection between us, the Earth and other species. We are part of the web of life which is a food web. The food web weaves the web of life, in cooperation and mutuality. Food is the metabolism that connects humans with the Earth, the country and the city, biodiversity and cultural diversity.

Food can overcome the metabolic rift between humans and nature, individuals and community, the city and the country. Food can overcome the deep divisions and inequality in society. Food is a human right. Through food we can create just and sustainable communities and societies.

In the last few decades, corporate globalization based on deregulation of commerce has facilitated the spread of an industrial food system. An Industrial globalized food system has become the most significant anthropocentric force, violating planetary boundaries, ecological limits, the integrity of species, cultures, communities. A non-sustainable food system is also an unjust food system, violating the human right to food and health, life and livelihood.

Commodification of food and long-distance globalized supply chains controlled by a handful of corporations have ruptured the relationship between the countryside and the city, increasing the metabolic rift. This has contributed to climate change as a metabolic disorder of Gaia, a self-regulating living organism, and metabolic disorders for people resulting in the explosion of non-communicable chronic diseases.

We are facing an existential emergency.

The multiple life-threatening crises and pandemics we face today including the health pandemic, the hunger pandemic, the poverty and unemployment pandemic, the climate emergency, the extinction emergency, the emergency of injustice, exclusion and inequality, dispossession and disposability of large numbers of humanity are interconnected.

The multiple emergencies are rooted in a world view based on the illusions of separation and superiority, which deny interconnectedness and oneness, an economy of greed which puts profits above life.

All have their roots in the violation of the laws of Pachamama, violation of her planetary boundaries, her ecological limits, her biodiversity. Continue…