Let Them Eat Bugs: Challenging the WEF’s Corporate-Driven Food Reset
Colin Todhunter
The prevailing globalised agrifood model is built on unjust trade policies, the leveraging of sovereign debt, population displacement and land dispossession. It fuels commodity monocropping and food insecurity as well as soil and environmental degradation.
It is responsible for increasing rates of illness, nutrient-deficient diets, a narrowing of the range of food crops, water shortages, chemical runoffs, increasing levels of farmer indebtedness, the undermining and destruction of local communities and the eradication of biodiversity.
The model relies on a policy paradigm that privileges urbanisation, global markets, long supply chains, external proprietary inputs, highly processed food and market (corporate) dependency at the expense of rural communities, small independent enterprises and smallholder farms, local markets, short supply chains, on-farm resources, diverse agroecological cropping, nutrient dense diets and food sovereignty.
It is clear that there are huge environmental, social and health issues that stem from how much of our food is currently produced and consumed and that a paradigm shift is required.
So, some optimists – or wishful thinkers – might have hoped for genuine solutions to the problems and challenges outlined above during the second edition of the United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) that took place last week in Rome.
The UNFSS has claimed that it aims to deliver the latest evidence-based, scientific approaches from around the world, launch a set of fresh commitments through coalitions of action and mobilise new financing and partnerships. These ‘coalitions of action’ revolve around implementing a ‘food transition’ that is more sustainable, efficient and environmentally friendly.
Founded on a partnership between the UN and the World Economic Forum (WEF), the UNFSS is, however, disproportionately influenced by corporate actors, lacks transparency and accountability and diverts energy and financial resources away from the real solutions needed to tackle the multiple hunger, environmental and health crises.
According to a recent article on The Canary website, key multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSIs) appearing at the 2023 summit included the WEF, the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, EAT (EAT Forum, EAT Foundation and EAT-Lancet Commission on Sustainable Healthy Food Systems), the World Business Council on Sustainable Development and the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa.
The global corporate agrifood sector, including Coca-Cola, Danone, Kelloggs, Nestlé, PepsiCo, Tyson Foods, Unilever, Bayer and Syngenta, were also out in force along with Dutch Rabobank, the Mastercard Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation.
Through its “strategic partnership” with the UN, the WEF regards MSIs as key to achieving its vision of a ‘great reset’ – in this case, a food transition. The summit comprises a powerful alliance of global corporations, influential foundations and rich countries that are attempting to capture the narrative of ‘food systems transformation’. These interests aim to secure greater corporate concentration and agribusiness leverage over public institutions.
Hannah Sharland, the author of the piece in The Canary, writes:
…the UN is knowingly giving the very corporations sponsoring the destruction of the planet prime seats at the table. It is precisely these corporations who already shape the state of global food systems.”
She concludes that the solutions to a burgeoning world crisis cannot be found in the corporate capitalist system that manufactured it.
During a press conference on 17 July 2023, representatives from the People’s Autonomous Response to the UNFSS highlighted the urgent, coordinated actions required to address global hunger. The response came in the form of a statement from those representing food justice movements, small-scale food producer organisations and indigenous peoples.
The statement denounced the United Nations’ approach. Saúl Vicente from the International Indian Treaty Council said that the summit’s organisers aimed to sell their corporate and industrial project as ‘transformation’.
The movements and organisations opposing the summit call for a rapid shift away from corporate-driven industrial models towards biodiverse, agroecological, community-led food systems that prioritise the public interest over profit making. This entails guaranteeing the rights of peoples to access and control land and productive resources while promoting agroecological production and peasant seeds.
The response to the summit adds that, despite the increasing recognition that industrial food systems are failing on so many fronts, agribusiness and food corporations continue to try to maintain their control. They are deploying digitalization, artificial intelligence and other information and communication technologies to promote a new wave of farmer dependency or displacement, resource grabbing, wealth extraction and labour exploitation and to re-structure food systems towards a greater concentration of power and ever more globalised value chains.
Shalmali Guttal, from Focus on the Global South, says:
…people from all over the world have presented concrete, effective strategies… food sovereignty, agroecology, revitalisation of biodiversity, territorial markets and a solidarity-based economy. The evidence is overwhelming – the solutions devised by small-scale food producers and Indigenous Peoples not only feed the world but also advance gender, social, economic justice, youth empowerment, workers’ rights and real resilience to crises.”
Guttal asks “why are policy makers not listening to this and providing adequate support?”
That’s easily answered. The UN has climbed into bed with the WEF and unaccountable corporate agrifood and big data giants, which have no time for democratic governance.
A new report by FIAN International was released in parallel to the statement from the People’s Autonomous Response. The report – Food Systems Transformation – In which direction? – calls for an urgent overhaul of the global food governance architecture to guarantee decision making that prioritises the public good and the right to food for all.
Sofia Monsalve, secretary general of FIAN International, says:
The main stumbling block for taking effective action towards more resilient, diversified, localized and agroecological food systems are the economic interests of those who advance and benefit from corporate-driven industrial food systems.”
These interests are promoting multistakeholderism: a process that involves corporations and their front groups and armies of lobbyists co-opting public bodies to act on their behalf in the name of ‘feeding the world’ and ‘sustainability’.
A process that places powerful private interests in the driving seat, steering policy makers to facilitate corporate needs while sidelining the strong concerns and solutions being forwarded by many civil society, small-scale food producers’ and workers’ organisations and indigenous peoples as well as prominent academics.
The very corporations that are responsible for the problems of the prevailing food system. They offer more of the same, this time packaged in a biosynthetic, genetically-engineered, bug-eating, ecomodernist, fake-green wrapping (see the online article From net zero to glyphosate: agritech’s greenwashed corporate power grab’).
While more than 800 million people go to bed hungry under the current food regime, these corporations and their wealthy investors continue to hunger for ever more profit and control. The economic system ensures they are not driven by food justice or any kind of justice. They are compelled to maximise profit, not least, for instance, by assigning an economic market value to all aspects of nature and social practices, whether knowledge, land, data, water, seeds or systems of resource exchange.
By cleverly (and cynically) ensuring that the needs of global markets (that is, the needs of corporate supply chains and their profit-seeking strategies) have become synonymous with the needs of modern agriculture, these corporations have secured a self-serving hegemonic policy paradigm among decision makers that is deeply embedded.
It is for good reason that the People’s Autonomous Response to the UNFSS calls for a mass mobilisation to challenge the power that major corporate interests wield:
[This power] must be dismantled so that the common good is privileged before corporate interests. It is time to connect our struggles and fight together for a better world based on mutual respect, social justice, equity, solidarity and harmony with our Mother Earth.”
This may seem like a tall order, especially given the financialization of the food and agriculture sector, which has developed in tandem with the neoliberal agenda and the overall financialization of the global economy. It means that extremely powerful firms like BlackRock – which holds shares in a number of the world’s largest food and agribusiness companies – have a lot riding on further entrenching the existing system.
But hope prevails. In 2021, the ETC Group and the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems released the report A Long Food Movement: Transforming Food Systems by 2045. It calls for grassroots organisations, international NGOs, farmers’ and fishers’ groups, cooperatives and unions to collaborate more closely to transform financial flows and food systems from the ground up.
The report’s lead author, Pat Mooney, says that civil society can fight back and develop healthy and equitable agroecological production systems, build short (community-based) supply chains and restructure and democratise governance structures.
Colin Todhunter specialises in development, food and agriculture and is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization in Montreal. You can read his “mini e-book”, Food, Dependency and Dispossession: Cultivating Resistance, here.
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The so-called journalism of today is making saints out of globalist psychopaths, terrorists and war criminals!
Remember, politics is not our soul, it is the dirtiest game that journalists continue to propagate in people”s minds.
It is absolutely necessary for politicians to be made clearly aware that they are not the people of wisdom, and that they are destroying the destiny of our nations, that they are only the servants of the people, their role is that of a functionary.
Why do you go on bothering about politicians?
More than fifty percent of your energy is wasted on those whose life span is mostly only four years.
Tomorrow they will be forgotten.
They are exactly like your newspapers.
Yesterday”s newspaper is just as useless as your politician of today.
Why give so much importance to momentary things?
The time is ripe, for journalism to become the beginning of a new era of exposing all of the dark criminal truths of politicians.
The alternative media is showing the way forward.
Push politics as far back as possible, to the last pages of your newspapers.
Journalists should be able to bring to the public news of the people who are fighting for unpopular causes, because the unpopular causes are the future freedom and dignity of humanity.
Journalists fighting for the truth, tooth and nail.
Bringing the truth, without any fear of any vested interest.
But what a weak humanity we are, we are not willing to remember and fight for the courage and freedom of all whistle blowers and truth tellers.
We must fight for the end of all persecution and imprisonment of Julian Assange, Edward Snowden, Gonzalo Lira, Chelsea Manning and so many others.
I enjoy immensely, seeing just one journalist who can put the whole world on fire, without having any dynamite in their hands, exposing all of the politicians with the power of their words and the truth.
Politicians are the lowest kind of criminal as far as consciousness is concerned.
They are clever, they are cunning, they are mean, too, and they make every effort for a single goal, how to be more powerful.
Their only desire is for more power, not for more peace, not for more being, not for more truth, not for more love.
And what do you need more power for?
To dominate others, to destroy others.
The apocalypse is coming for humanity, thanks to these saints!
All power it seems always accumulates in the hands of unconscious people.
It is our own stupidity for allowing this to continue.
Man’s consciousness has not grown with the same pace as his scientific progress, and that has been the cause of all the old civilizations destroying themselves.
There was no outer cause, no outer enemy, the enemy was always within man.
He created monsters as far as machines are concerned, but he himself remained very retarded, unconscious, almost asleep.
And it is very dangerous to give so much power to unconscious people.
The same is happening today with A.I.
When this civilization is destroyed, people may think it was a natural calamity.
It is not.
We have created it.
Why give so much importance to momentary things?
The politician is not interested in solving problems, they are interested in making them as complex as possible.
So they become absolutely essential; you need them always.
They want to keep you always afraid of their nuclear enemies, China, Russia, Iran, so that you always need your leaders, whether they are of any worth or not.
In times of war, whoever is in power they feel should be given total support, because it is a question of defeating the existential crisis that they have created.
The cunning politician always keeps every country always in crisis.
The globalist legacy news media is not even interested in reporting who is the worlds greatest terrorist threat, because it seems, nobody is interested in the truth.
Piers Morgan isn’t!
Do you have any awareness?
It is the politicians of both parties in the US/UK.!!!
A tremendous struggle for a great revolution in human consciousness is needed, and everybody is called for that revolution.
Contribute all that you can.
Your whole life has to be given to the revolution.
You will not have another chance, another challenge, for your own growth, and for the growth of this whole beautiful planet.
This is the only planet in the whole of existence which is alive; its death would be a great tragedy.
But it can be avoided.
You have to become the soldiers for this revolution to avoid the criminal forces, the evil forces, which are getting ready to destroy us.
Religiousness is the only antidote?
Religiousness means giving importance to something which is a permanent value, which gives life, light, intelligence and guidance forever, which is eternal.
Eternal values constitute spirituality, momentary values constitute politics..
Religiousness does not mean any kind of fanaticism.
Politics and religiousness are just polar opposites.
Religiousness simply means you have to spread the basic fundamentals of intelligence, love, light, life itself.
An authentic spirituality will be without any adjective.
It will teach only the essentials of religiousness.
Unfortunately the West is programmed only to believe in a superstition based organized so-called religion.
That has been their choice for centuries, and they are suffering because of it, badly suffering.
So many people are in psychoanalysis, so many people are inside psychiatric hospitals, so many people are going insane, committing suicide, murdering, doing things just because they find life so meaningless, so useless.
Religiousness is the very meaning of life.
Without a soul, you are just a walking corpse.
A brain dead zombie!
And without religiousness, all education, journalism, are only rotting corpses, they stink.
If we can create a different kind of journalism, which is not dominated by politicians, but is inspired by its wise people.
And you can remain absolutely certain that the wise people of any country are not going to fight in the elections; they are not going to beg for votes from the masses.
So the wise people by their very nature remain out of power.
It should be one of the basic functions of journalism to bring the wise people and their wisdom before the masses, into the light.
Politicians should not be paid too much attention, it is dangerous.
They should be ignored as much as possible.
They should be paid attention only when they do something which is authentically good.
Journalists should not be afraid of anybody; you are not dependent on anybody”s votes.
You should bring truth to the people.
That just a few bad people have been ruling the whole of humanity, and millions of good people, seeing destructiveness, seeing violence, seeing criminality, just remain silent.
They don’t want to get involved in any trouble.
The bad people are in search of trouble; the good people avoid trouble.
We have to learn one thing, and that is, to fight for the truth, fighting for that which is beautiful, fighting for that which is good, otherwise there is no hope for humanity.
Congratulations! You are promote to Special Agent, PsyoEdu Division, Langley, Virginia.
Bugs lucky you…..
The Kebabs shop and the local Chinese according to local folk law has been serving this and cats, dogs, rats etc for the past 30+ years.
Folk Law is the only Law!
Also want to add once more that it is a waste of energy to focus on the vampires.
Focus on the many who do their bidding in the police and military. They are the ones stopping us from simply ignoring the vampire commands. Without the police and military, Schwab, Gates and friends would not be able to issue their curses.
Amen.
I might totally disagree with your views on beef and dairy products, but on this I couldn’t agree more!
👍 100
The WEF and friends are succesful in getting useful idiots to sign up because they have co-opted real problems and then twisted the solutions to fit their ends.
Industrial cow farming is a real big fucking problem and needs to stop by any means necessary.
The “rolling hills” that most Brits think is “nature” used to be woodlands producing more and supporting more people and other plants and animals.
Vast areas of unique nature that will take centuries to recover has been destroyed in South America to farm cows, or feed crops for the cows, for big trans-national companies.
Cow dairy products are NOT healthy food for kids or adults, no matter how much it has been drummed into you.
Nobody needs to eat beef more than once a week, if at all.
Human beings are omnivores.
These are basic biological facts.
It is also extremely likely that the beef and dairy industry are funding certain people and groups among those opposed to the WEF’s “solutions”, just as the petroleum industry is 100% certainly producing propaganda and legislation against any real green alternatives to petroleum-derived products (not just fuels).
WEF and friends are successful because a 120k per annum salary is almost irresistible for any one.
And for them 120k per annum is rightly called, “chump change”.
Cow dairy products are NOT healthy food for kids or adults, no matter how much it has been drummed into you.
Nobody needs to eat beef more than once a week, if at all.
Oh yes. Says who? You?
We’ve been eating such nutritious food for countless centuries, how long have the so-called ‘healthy alternatives’ been around, genius? (I.e. low protein, soy based shit and TOXIC vegetable oil derivatives – fake butter and other poor imitations of healthy and nutritious dairy foods).
Then, you immediately contradict yourself with this:
Human beings are omnivores.
Has the reset all ready happened in some of your heads.
Yes. Society is now dysfunctional absurd going slowly down. The worst is till to come.
Capital: I Can’t breathe. Can’t make enough profit rate to motivate investments. I need new fresh values to get things going…
Marx: Well then let go; relax and let yourself be transformed.
Capital: I can’t relax; I got some cards under the table yet: climate, green economy, digitalisation, health, insect farming,…
Marx: Ok, I’ll wait.
How about stuffing some sodden corporate “shares” between a couple buns. Slather a bit o’ GMO ketchup on it. Yummy!
“Only when the last tree has died, the last river been poisoned, and the last fish been caught, will we realize we cannot eat money.”
– Cree Indian proverb –
It’s the CORPORATE system, folks. Corporate SYSTEM.
Nice quote, will use that.
Some Canadians still celebrate National Insect Appreciation Day.
https://esc-sec.ca/entomology-resources/naiad-national-insect-appreciation-day/
Does the Canadian Entomological Society still serve insect snacks at this festivity? Free range insect delicacies are exceedingly Nutrient Rich.
Within each country, the subversion and enslavement requires active traitors. They are the ones who accept, ratify and enforce the outrageous treaties.
“The global corporate agrifood sector, including Coca-Cola, … were out in force” [in this UN / WEF collusion].
As a Palestinian mother said, When we drink Coca-Cola we pay for the bullets that kill our children.
That is one reason why recent financial blackmail by the EU$A backfired: it made Russia and China develope their own locally made products to replace EU$A global “names”. Russia is now a major supplier of non-GMO grain, and China is a major supplier of non-backdoor micro-chips.
The only stakeholders worth their salt are those pounding wooden stakes through these vampires’ hearts.
If anyone has Great Greta’s email address i’d like to post to her:
Cobalt Carnage, Child Labor and Ecological Destruction:
wattsupwiththat.com/2023/07/31/cobalt-carnage-child-labor-and-ecological-destruction/
The Fourth Industrial Revolution is being built on the back of the First Industrial Revolution and the conditions are just as horrific…
Meanwhile, some Cheap Shots at Great Greta, though some might claim it’s Shooting The Messenger:
Global Warming: Best Greta Thunberg Memes:
covidsteria.substack.com/p/global-warming-best-greta-thunberg-memes/
As long as they preserve the $1 dollar cheeseburger they can do w.t.f. they wanna do with their bug food for my sake.
Yum yum nope! Fat Bottom.
It costs one Hundred…Fifty… Twenty.. Ten..Five bucks a piece depending where you got get it. You not an American you are an unknowable Immigrant Alien…!
Ya Dig.
You need a Lesson…thank you for the five bucks on behalf of the People who happened upon needing it very early one morning..
Now, how about a drink….but Crack tom..sitting on the Fence…
☺
Directly from McMeny:
300 Cal.
1.69$
$1 in OH
$2.79 in MA
Fixed for Fat Bottom.
The last time I had a $2 fast food cheeseburger, the bun was made out of cardboard, that was it for me.
All right you paid double to get a half. That dont impress me much.
https://youtu.be/mqFLXayD6e8
Geez, that photo at the top just put me off my morning coffee and chocolate.
One solution to the current rapacious, toxic, unjust and environmentally devastating global agrifood system would be to ban food crops from being traded on the stock exchange.
It’s getting to the stage where people must be very afraid every time the media trumpet the next “latest evidence-based, scientific approach” – especially if made mandatory, which it always is. No say from the people it’s being foisted upon.
Hannah Sharland is spot on in saying we can’t leave the solutions to those (the “stakeholders” and governments) who created the problems in the first place. That goes for pretty much every societal issue you can think of.
Those organised movements that call for a shift away from this stakeholder capitalist system must join together and summon a louder voice to reach more people in the hope of waking more people up from their slumber. I’m fresh out of energy and motivation talking to people in my wider circle of friends who just want to get on with their lives after the covid era, completely uninterested in world affairs.
There’s no point in petitioning policy makers. We must disentangle ourselves from this top-down system altogether.
BTW, here’s the link to a free download of Klaus’s notorious book:
Free book download
COVID-19:
THE GREAT RESET KLAUS SCHWAB THIERRY MALLERET
FORUM PUBLISHING, 2020
http://reparti.free.fr/schwab2020.pdf
Ahhh poo poo, that’s based upon what Person does during a given World Crisis over fifty years. Who’s this Woman, following a female say so will skin you down to a whimpering rabbit.
I know no one who wants to eat arthropods. It is just a matter of time before it crumbles. All of it.
Never underestimate stupid.
I lived in the Caribbean for 14 years and there were a lot of people there who ate arthropods. I used to hunt them with scuba gear.
I lived in Africa for 22 years and there were a lot of people there who ate arthropods as a delicacy. The aboriginal Africans tended to favour locusts, while the colonial Europeans and Asians preferred sushi, shrimp and lobster.
And let us not forget John the Baptist.
As for the grubs, it is common food for many aborigines and some rural peoples. But the issue is choice, something our would-be overlords would like to determine.
That is the nub of the matter: OffG’s crusade “against Autocracy, Authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world”.
Beware, they’re kicking things off with pet foods.
I watch a TV programme and at the end up comes a little logo saying
“We are carbon neutral. Sustainable Productions”.
What the fuck is going on?
I see the same crap. PBS mostly.
We’re being gamed. Nobody elected Klaus Schwab and his arrogant WEF cronies. We should instruct our governments to tell them to eff off. And stay effed off.
That’s the problem: How do we “instruct our governments” these days?
It seems to me that the organs of local communication “from the bottom up” (Trade Unions, Local Parties, Local Government) have been taken over by global agents “parachuted” into local organizations “from the top down”.
So you wouldn’t vote for Yuval Harari for Chairman ex Honoris?
Green-washing is pervasive. At one time, it was evil spirits, piety and the like.
All of the serious issues facing the planet today lead back to the same source, the corporate entity. It is a vampire feeding on the planet. The solution is surely to destroy the whole concept and never let it arise again. Never give legal power to such an institution.
There is nothing wrong with trade and barter, but the corporate structure is responsible for everything wrong on this rock.
Soylent Green is people!
Tru$t th€ $¢i€n¢€…
Box:
“Fish, and plankton, and sea greens, and protein from the sea. It’s all here, ready. Fresh as harvest day. Fish and sea greens, plankton and protein from the sea. And then it stopped coming. And they came instead. So I store them here. I’m ready. And you’re ready. It’s my job. To freeze you.”
Scientist suggests eating human flesh to fight climate change
https://nypost.com/2019/09/09/scientist-suggests-eating-human-flesh-to-fight-climate-change/
Brawndo — The Thirst Mutilator. It’s what plants crave!
Kit Knightly:
“there is an on-going campaign to “revolutionise global food systems” by promoting eating insects, GMOs and lab-grown “meat”… …condition children (and their parents) into accepting eating whatever the state chooses to provide – be it ‘healthy’ GM veganism, bug-burgers or lab-grown food paste.”
The Insidious Truth Behind Free School Meals
The UN is pushing for universal free school meals, but that level of control would be easily abused. By Kit Knightly
https://off-guardian.org/2023/07/25/the-insidious-truth-behind-free-school-meals/
You will own nothing and be happy… Now shut up and eat your bugs!
Charleton Heston was great in that movie.
“restructure and democratise governance structures”
People can bitch about fat Americans all they want and proselytize about how back yard gardens and farmers markets can save the world, but unless we do something about that, they control us lock, stock, and barrel.
The fact of that control is skilfully ignored… thus derailing everything that precedes or follows it.
My garden is fine. Ten cucumbers a day, a similar number of tomatoes about to ripen. But this will not address the Schwabs, Hararis, Rockefellers, and Fauci, Gates, Wallensky, Cohen, Bourla, Bancel, Tal Zaks, Ezekiel Emmanuel and Mr Wu Han and Mr Say It Ain’t So.
OTOH if John Smith and Jane Doe allow themselves to fall victim, after the strange parallels with the Bolsheviks and the CHEKA and Schwab coddling his statue of Lenin…
Well, love your London irony and champagne socialism because the totalitarians who don’t give a toss about socialism – except as a means of dispropriating – are about to pounce.
And you’ll be singing 1997 Blairite campaign songs… “Things can only get better”…. Cool Britannia (just life is no longer an EP, or Extended Play).
Exactly. I’ve been growing for 15 years now, all sorts, 20-30 tomatoes, carrots, potatoes, green beans, spices, herbs, pumpkins, cucs, berries, you name it. I like it and it gives my family extra, fresh, organic food. But that’s not THE answer. We got bigger fish to fry.
STOP saying ORGANIC you DUMB YANKIE FUCKHEAD!
Hey Clive, meet me behind the bar at 11, OK? We’ll talk in person.
Clive, I’ve held back for a while but you are an a**ho*e..
I can easily stop saying “ORGANIC” if you provide one good reason. Just one.
I cannot defend Yankees but shouldn’t you know better than to restore to an ad hominem attack. my
How ’bout commenting first thing in the AM before your first Tennant’s? Booze tends to make us all, me included, boring.
Topnotch Todhunter [quote with edits]:
“The [Global Capitalist WEF] model relies on a policy that privileges urbanisation, global markets, long supply chains, external proprietary inputs, highly processed food and market (corporate) dependency at the expense of rural communities, small independent enterprises, smallholder farms, local markets, short supply chains, on-farm resources, diverse agroecology, nutrient dense diets and local food sovereignty.
“Huge environmental, social and health issues stem from the way our food is mass produced and mass consumed. Something must be done about it.”
As a longtime Todhunter fan I look forward to a lively discussion on positive suggestions. Colin’s final para seems equally applicable to rectify current deficiencies in Global Capitalist Government Ownership and Distribution as in Global Capitalist Food Ownership and Distribution:
“civil society can fight back and develop healthy and equitable [government] systems, build short (community-based) [communication] chains and democratise [local] governance structures [such as Town Hall, Civic Centre, School, Health Centre, Business Centre, Trade Unions, Local Parties].
Keep in mind that we live in a system of social relations that includes the whole of the so-called civilised world. Our social relations and our social being, the path that civilisation is going through, are determined and evolve, according to a particular way in which the means of survival – that connects to our very being – are the property of some of us to the exclusion of the rest. This property is then employed to build the kind of society we know.
This system is a network of institutions each of which is connected to the others; it includes the relations the individuals keep with each other and with these institutions. A feature of any such a system is that a failure at one point spreads all over the network threating with a general breakdown (e.g. the 2008 GFC, wars, States like Libya threatening to get out of the system, and so on) thus demanding quick attention. The system is flexible enough to adapt to the failures it suffers and does so without ever touching to its foundation: the particular way the means of survival are appropriated by part of society; this in turn has the effect of the failures becoming more frequent and serious, as the primary cause of these failures lies precisely in the foundations, not in any lack of efficiency in running it.
Three actors can be roughly devised within the system: societies within it, the capitalist companies and the bureaucracy. The bureaucracy manages the day-to-day perdurance of the system; ensures its smooth functioning and finds solutions to its crises. The capitalist companies are owners of the means to carry out the bulk of these solutions and other projects that feed back more control over the system into these two actors. Then we have us, the societies that are given the illusion of being the owners of the system and of what happens to it while in truth no one owns the system nor can set its path. It is important to note that the solutions to the crises of the system are not really solutions but temporary fixes; and many within the first two actors know that: for not allowing a critique of the foundation of the system, problems keep popping up as their root-cause is never addressed. In turn, the permanent emergence of crises gives the bureaucracy and capitalist companies constantly a task to perform, sets up to them a challenge, a limit they now must knock down, hence seating more firmly the justification for their existence.
Crises can therefore present themselves as lack of crises, a point at which the bureaucracy first, and then probably the capitalist companies risk losing the justification for their existence. It is no wonder then that crises are exaggerated, or even concocted to keep the wheels of the system turning. And that’s the point I was trying to get to: the crises are on one hand threats to the system (depression of the 1930s, GFC,…) but are also necessary to keep a gigantic apparatus on its feet, as a failure thereof threatens the whole system. This is why when one visits the website of any bureaucracy, the UN for instance, they keep talking of problems we face (which may be real, or unduly exaggerated) and of the solutions they are busy working out. The sheer absurdity of the matter is that the producers of the problems are never pointed out, for they are at the foundation of the system; they on the contrary are praised as part of the solution by said bureaucracy. Any village fool would laugh at Guterres lamenting the state the world is in without condemning the obvious guilty party but inviting it to be part of the solution. He’s just protecting his wallet and therefore those very actors that produce the problems he’s whining about. I’ll add that we all try to protect our livelihood.
Thus, the pressure can only be let off through the third actor, us, until one day we get fed up and give them a good kick in the a**: “No more job for you; we are taking over!”
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Lulz, As the Messianic dream of a righteous universal government, and claim to their awaited inheritance & utopia, intrusive, destructive surveillance technology is being implemented at break-neck speed to facilitate the slave-owners digital infrastructure, we are still going on about bugs & masks.
Tell you what, Klaus:
You eat the bugs, and we’ll hold on to our sanity.
Imagine these fiends behind bars, fed only the most loathsome insects and given every jab they promoted.
Imagining is the first step.
Yes.
Not fed …scavenging scrawny cockroaches off the clammy walls off their black mold infested solitary confinement cells. And trading the bigger ones with the guards for cigarettes.
“The UN has climbed into bed with the WEF and unaccountable corporate agrifood…steering policy makers to facilitate corporate needs…”
UN delegates do not have independent volition, nor are policy makers being steered. As a precondition to addressing the problem, our language needs to accurately describe global cap’s relationship with the UN; not from an idealized framework of a
3rd party seeking control, but as the UN itself.
I’ll eat bugs as long as they can guarantee they won’t taste like McDonalds.
I would rather give bugs (mealworms) to the birds in my garden, but I would prefer to have Weetabix with milk and honey thank you very much…( Stick your bugs where the sun don’t shine)
We know which group is expected to eat bugs and which group will continue to gorge their corrupted souls on the finest food…
The prevailing food model in the West is built on the fact that the absolute vast majority of motherfuckers are gluttonous lardasses who overindulge on a perpetual basis. Stuff themselves to the brim, mostly with shit passed for food. The commonplace American diet being a case in point.
Visit your nearest dispensary of food-like horseshit made from waste produced by the nearest oil refinery (read: supermarket), and observe the obese human-like creatures pushing their shopping carts overflowing with the said horseshit, stuffing the endless heaps of it into their cars, and driving off to their couch to shovel the plastic crap down their throats. While you’re at it, check out the endless shelves, the endless supply of shit thereon, most of which will probably go to waste because even the fat fucks’ insatiable appetite can’t consume all of it.
It’s not much different with other products people in today’s ‘advanced civilization’ avail themselves off.
Fuck bug burgers, but fuck the sick gluttony too.
You may have a point. But, at the same time, so much food has lost its nutritional value – compared to 50 years ago – that people now eat more and more in order to become ‘full’. Much of this is subconscious. There was an experiment done with cows years ago (by William Albrecht). One group was provided with more nutrient-dense grass, the other with poor quality grass. The cattle fed and the good stuff stopped eating at a certain point. The other group ate almost non-stop. For humans, this means constantly stuffing themselves with high-calorie, poor-nutrient ‘food’.
That’s true. I’ve seen a chart recently of a bunch of basic foodstuffs showing their nutritional value in the past and today – a huge difference. The stuff people stuff their faces with are all show but no substance. Tomatoes are like painted tennis balls, with no taste, no flavor. Ditto everything else – chicken meat is veritable shit.
That changes little about the aforesaid, though. It stands to reason that if people ate less, less food-like food would have to be produced and presumably it could be of better quality.
I just tried an experiment on myself. I’m type 1 diabetic and everything got more difficult when I was put on a thyroid medication due to a lack of iodine in my system. I’ve just discovered that the thyroid meds make diabetes worse so I need more insulin to control it thereby upping the profits on both meds. So I stopped taking the thyroxine and tried to source iodine elsewhere. They used to put it in salt but don’t any more as far as I can see. That was a good plan given that so many people end up taking thyroxine for life. I bought iodine drops but in the end it was so expensive I went back on the ‘free’ NHS prescription meds. So the lack of nutrients in our food cause us to get specific chronic conditions which in their interactions make the illnesses more entrenched and the big pharma profits get bigger (as do we on the crap food). Some plan. We’re in a psychopath’s utopia.
I won’t argue about a psychopath’s utopia. But as to iodine supplementation being unaffordable. In the US a 2 ounce bottle of Lugol’s 2% solution on Amazon costs $9 a bottle. My wife and I use 5 drops a night between us, and the bottles seem to last months.
-The manufacturers extract some nutrients from food to sell separately.
-Grinding up the food increases consumption while destroying fibre.
-A vast range of harmful additives aid processsing, storage and marketing. Most people have become infantalised by the fine-tuned tastes of processed food and drink.
Never forget S.A.D.
‘The Standard American Diet.’
Last time I was in the States (2015) I was actually slightly worried about food shopping.
You’re wrong, It’s not the people; it’s the whole system people find themselves in. The system is not built on “gluttonous mofos”, the system needs to fabricate them, through advertising, culture, etc. To exclusively incriminate the “gluttonous mofos” means that if healthy people replaced the lardasses ones, but keeping the system, the healthy remain healthy. Well, just give it time; or see how for instance indigenous people have become after a coupe of generations of integrating civilisation (check out for instance Australian indigenous people). It’s not the people. The part of responsibility people have is not comparable to the machinery Capital deploys to sell its products.
The following information is old (2001) but I doubt the tendency has changed much since, if it hasn’t worsened. From Diabetes Care, Volume 26, Number 2, February 2003, [emphasis added]:
“We focused on the issue of daily exposure to advertising and examined U.S. spending in 2001 on brand advertising via TV, print, outdoor billboard, and radio media that aimed to promote consumption of fast foods, sodas, and confectionery and the use of automobiles. Data were abstracted from an annual report on advertising statistics from TV, newspaper, magazine, outdoor billboard, and radio media in 10 categories and focused on the top 200 U.S. brands*. Results showed advertising spending for the fast-food category involving nine brands was $3.5 billion. Spending in the separate food, confectionery, and beverages category was an additional $5.8 billion (including $785.5 million for the to five soda brands). Another $15.5 billion was spent in the automobile category. The magnitude of this advertising onslaught on U.S. adults and children in order to promote consumption of products that could be argued to directly and indirectly promote obesity is alarming. By comparison, the total administrative budgets in 2001 for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) were $5.1 billion and $1.3 billion, respectively.
[Translation: In 2001, 9.3 billion were spent on advertising on fast food and other unhealthy food and beverages, while 6.4 billion were on CDC + FDA]
“As a research community, we need to more systematically investigate the societal and cultural forces shaping our eating and exercise habits, including the use of advertising and marketing. … The role of our current U.S. economic model, business practices, and political institutions has not yet been featured in the debate on our obesity epidemic. Research should clarify the link between these factors and sedentary lifestyles and obesity.”
* Schumann M: Megabrands: top brands hold the line in 2001. Advertising Age July 22nd: S1–S9, 2002
People are making one big mistake: they think that the UN wants the best solutions, rather than being an organisation totally controlled by corporate interests.
You will get nowhere negotiating with the UN, they do what they are told.
The appropriate strategy is NOT to engage with them but to ensure that your own food sovereignty is delivered. Every individual that achieves food sovereignty in a meaningful way is one less person that is affected by UN claptrap.
Delivering that is a bottom up operation. It’s about local entrepreneurial farmers being linked up with willing local customers. It happens directly online, it happens at farmers markets, it happens through weekly box schemes. It happens through growing some or all of your own fruit and vegetables, it happens through making your own high quality compost and recycling woodchips generated by local tree surgeons.
It happens through NOT shopping in supermarkets, it happens through avoiding the purchase of frozen highly processed food as much as is practicable.
It involves taking personal action, personal responsibility and being prepared to have challenges through a transition.
If of course Governments become coerced by corporations to make such shunning illegal, then different strategies are required. At that point, it is war of the many against the warmongering few.
But it doesn’t have to be that way…..just stop buying the Great Reset products and the companies will lose money.
Easier said than done.
Do you have an allotment? Labour intensive understates it, for the reward it offers.
Only works if scaled up, so communities possibly but the individual unlikely.
People living pay check to pay check can’t grow or save food for any period of time, I like the concept, but where does it end, with energy, transportation, or even how much can one carry on their own back in the worst case scenario.
It takes effort and planning. Our brains can handle that.
Believing fake history and holding on to fake values. Guess the only way is look at yourself, you cant change others (intentionally).
In summer, at least, first thing I do is go to the local producer and buy.
Bugger that!