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Грязные доходы: Отравленный мировой рынок продовольствия и токсичное богатство
Sickening Profits: The Global Food System’s Poisoned Food and Toxic Wealth

Год издания: 2023
Автор: Colin Todhunte / Колин Тодхантер
Жанр или тематика: публицистика
Издательство: Global Research
ISBN: нет
Серия: нет

Язык: английский
Формат: PDF
Качество: издательский макет или текст (eBook)
Интерактивное оглавление: нет
Количество страниц: 74
Иллюстрации: да

Описание: В этой книге изложены некоторые ключевые тенденции, влияющие на продовольствие и сельское хозяйство, включая преобладание модели промышленного, химико-интенсивного сельского хозяйства и их пагубных последствий.

В частности, рассматривается, как современная продовольственная система формируется под влиянием капиталистического императива извлечения прибыли, с особым акцентом на ситуацию в Украине.

This is a follow up to the author’s e-book Food, Dispossession and Dependency — Resisting the New World Order, which was originally published in February 2022 by Global Research and is hosted on the Centre for Research on Globalization’s [CRG] website.

That book set out some key trends affecting food and agriculture, including the prevailing model of industrial, chemical-intensive farming and its deleterious impacts. Alternatives to that model were discussed, specifically agroecology. The book also looked at the farmers’ struggle in India and how the COVID-19 ‘pandemic’ was being used to manage a crisis of capitalism and the restructuring of much of the global economy, including food and agriculture.

This new e-book begins by examining how the modern food system is being shaped by the capitalist imperative for profit, with specific focus on the situation in Ukraine, and discusses the role of the world’s most powerful investment management firm, BlackRock. It then goes on to describe how people (not least children) are being sickened by corporations and a system that thrives on the promotion of ‘junk’ (ultra-processed) food laced with harmful chemicals and the use of toxic agrochemicals. It’s a highly profitable situation for investment firms like BlackRock, Vanguard, State Street,

Fidelity and Capital Group and the food conglomerates they invest in. But BlackRock and others are not just heavily invested in the food industry. They also profit from illnesses and diseases resulting from the food system by having stakes in the pharmaceuticals sector as well. A win-win situation.

The book goes on to describe how lobbying by agri-food corporations and their well-placed, well-funded front groups ensures this situation prevails. They continue to capture policy-making and regulatory space at international and national levels and promote the notion that without their products the world would starve.

Moreover, they are now pushing a fake-green, ecomodernist narrative in an attempt to roll out their new proprietary technologies in order to further entrench their grip on a global food system that produces poor food, illness, environmental degradation, the eradication of smallholder farming, the undermining of rural communities, dependency and dispossession.

The final chapter looks at the broader geopolitical aspects of food and agriculture in a postCOVID world characterised by food inflation, hardship and multi-trillion-dollar global debt.
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Introduction
Chapter I:
BlackRock’s Economic Warfare on Humanity
Chapter II:
Millions Suffer as Junk Food Corporations Rake in Global Profits
Chapter III:
Fast-Food Graveyard: Sickened for Profit
Chapter IV:
Toxic Contagion: Funds, Food and Pharma
Chapter V:
Rachel Carson and Monsanto: The Silence of Spring
Chapter VI:
From Union Carbide to Syngenta: Pouring Poison
Chapter VII:
GMOs Essential to Feed the World? Case Study India
Chapter VIII:
Food Transition: A Greenwashed Corporate Power Grab
Chapter IX:
Challenging the Ecomodernist Dystopia
Chapter X:
The Netherlands: Template for a Brave New World?
Chapter XI:
Resisting Genetically Mutilated Food and Eco-Modernism
Chapter XII:
Post-COVID Food Crisis by Design?
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