We Must Degrow the 'Corporate Food Regime': Food Sovereignty Advocate

[KurtNYC]

1. Link

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/09/09/we-must-degrow-corporate-food-regime-food-sovereignty-advocate

When the trains were built through Germany in the 1830s, much of the better food was exported. Cheap transportation led to a decline in what was available to farming communities as they made it easier to extract real wealth. Cheap transportation helped turn food into a commodity, where every farmer had to compete on price with an ever wider swath of farmers in Europe. One of the foods which did not transport well due to spoilage was cabbage so the farmers of the German countryside were left with an abundance of cabbage. The word "Kraut" emerged as a derogatory term, blaming the newly impoverished farmers for their poverty.

180 years later, almost every farmer in the world must compete on price and food is a commodity sold to multi-national food processors who make the majority of profits in the food and ethanol industries.