Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 21, 2018
What are we eating?
Diemer, Ulli (ed.)
http://www.connexions.org/Media/CXNL-2018-01-21.htm
Date Written: 2018-01-21
Publisher: Connexions
Year Published: 2018
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Cx Number: CX21891
What are we eating? A simple question which opens up a labyrinth of devilishly complex issues about production and distribution, access to land, control of water, prices, health and safety, migrant labour, and much else.
For millions of people, the answer is brutally simple: not enough to survive. UNICEF estimates that 300 million children go to bed hungry each night, and that more than 8,000 children under the age of five die of malnutrition every day. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that 12% of the world's population is chronically malnourished.
How is this possible in a world where there is an enormous surplus of food, where farmers are paid not to grow food?
A short answer is that food production and distribution are driven by the need to make profits, rather than by human needs.
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Contents:
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Resistance to Antibiotics: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Two Decades of Monsanto's Illegal Actions, Frauds and Crimes in India
One Palestinian Man's Mission to Make Urban Agriculture More Sustainable
Website of the Week: VandanaShiva.com
Book of the Week: An Illustrated Guide to Growing Food on Your Balcony
Video of the Week: Only one bear in a hundred bites, but they don't come in order
Organizing: Tomato pickers win higher pay. Can other workers use their strategy?
People's History: A common treasury for all: Gerrard Winstanley's vision of utopia
From the Archives: Via Campesina Declaration on Food Sovereignty 1996
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