“In order to make food production into big business, you have to make it artificially scarce. Modern civilization is based on hierarchical control over food production and the stratification of society. This way of civilization will lead to our extinction.

We need to change it fast, and we have the tools to do it in our hands: agroecology, local economies, appropriate technologies, real democracy and equality. Food is the most transformative force for humanity.”

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