<div class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Alison Katz</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:katz.alison@gmail.com">katz.alison@gmail.com</a>></span><br><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Just one addition re junk food TNCs. I think we should be careful <b>NOT to focus only on junk food TNCs</b> rather than <b>the entire agro industrial TNC giants.</b> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Why? Principally because it is the control of the food chain, from A to Z - which advances inexorably every day. Land rights for farmers are paramount for food sovereignty (and food sovereignty is paramount for Health for All).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">We must not play the game of the establishment on <b>food security which is NOT the same thing as food sovereignty</b>. Donors, FAO, WHO, WFP etc, talk about food security, because through assuring that food will be delivered in crises, the foundations are laid (through dumping and destruction of local production capacity) for further takeover of the agricultural sector by the Northern nations’ TNCs. Further takeover, further impoverishment, further rural out-migration to the mega-slums, etc. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Local food production for food sovereignty</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> must be our aim if the world’s people are to feed themselves with <b>decent nutritious food, in reliable supplies</b>. That is real emancipatory development. The rich countries prevented the development of an industrial base in poor countries and are now also destroying the agricultural base. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">It is not just junk food, it is food that is produced industrially (with unsafe and polluting products, producing a cancer epidemic which is massively profitable for the medical equipment and pharma industry) by huge companies, taking over all remaining agricultural land in the world and destroying rural communities and their self sufficiency.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Small farmers will be an extinct species soon. People too, if we don’t stop the poisoning of our planet.</span></p>
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