Loading ...‘Don’t Eat the Bugs’: How to Reclaim Control Over the Food System
“Attack on Food and Farmers and How to Fight Back,” a two-day symposium featuring 40-plus speakers, brought together doctors, journalists, researchers, farmers and politicians to discuss what’s happened to the global food system — and how to fix it.
After opening comments by Dr. Meryl Nass, who organized the symposium, Catherine Austin Fitts of the Solari Report and author Patrick Wood kicked it off, outlining how long-term efforts by technocratic elites to control the food system are linked to a strategy to concentrate control over the financial system — and how farmers are resisting.
Speakers discussed how glyphosate and other pesticides, genetically modified organisms (GMOs), vaccines, new forms of genetic engineering and land concentration — along with state laws that make it difficult for farmers to get their food to markets, national policies like the farm bill and international policies like One Health — together constitute a global attack on food and agriculture.
“It is very important to understand we’re fighting, not just for our freedom,” Fitts said, “but we are fighting to make sure that we are not the victims of famine either because we will not be able to get food or because we will be able to get food that is not worth eating.”