WALMART gets one out of every three dollars spent on groceries in the United States.
Pepsico is the second largest company in the world. Among its assets are Rice-a-Roni, Doritos, Quaker Oats and Smartfood.
Midsize family farmers make an average annual income of approximately $19,000 – including government subsidies.
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WH has been on the road espousing this gospel the last few months. Yesterday, she was in New Orleans. Today through Friday she is in North Carolina before a visit to Bethesda, Maryland on Monday, followed by numerous other cities over the next several months.
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Perhaps, WH will speak loudly and persuasively enough for Americans to realize that it is not enough to simply vote with their forks, though that is a starter course. Her credentials suggest that her words may be heard and heeded. This daughter of a farmer runs her family’s Virginia farm as a Community Supported Agriculture(CSA) program.
Basically, a CSA grows and sells food to clients who sign up in advance to purchase it. In a way, it is a grow-by-order type system, one of various weapons that the good-food movement employs to attain food sovereignty until such time that the traditional family farm is once again this nation’s major food producer.
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The food activist and strategist suggests that consumers may metaphorically want to pick up a pitchfork and go straight for the belly of the beasts that are Big Food and Big Ag. And a Congress that enables them by making laws that permit the production of meat, grains, vegetables and dairy on an unnatural fast track that discourages organic farming practices.
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The consumer faces a huge uphill battle, WH, asserts. But it is fight the enemy on various fronts, particularly scientific and public policy, or die prematurely.
Visit http://www.foodopoly.org to learn more about Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America,” including purchase information and Wenonah Hauter’s book tour schedule. Rx
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