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The $1.60 a day I’m paying for three meals a day here is a bargain only by the narrowest of calculations. It doesn’t take into account, for example, the cost to the public health of antibiotic resistance or food poisoning by E. coli O157:H7. It doesn’t take into account the cost to taxpayers of the farm subsidies that keep Poky’s raw materials

Once a dangerous contaminant, feces are now classified as a “cosmetic blemish.”

Strawberries first shaped my view of a world full of gifts simply scattered at your feet.

but in 1999, Canadian health authorities, after eight years of study, rejected Monsanto's application for approval of rBGH.4s In so doing, Canada Joined the European Union, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand, all of whom have banned rBGH because of scientific health concerns.

Research has proved that the green revolution in agriculture with its reliance on GMO seeds, chemical fertilizer, insecticides, and unsustainable use of water has temporarily allowed us to feed more people, but it is not sustainable. It comes at the cost of destroying topsoil; poisoning the sky, land, and water; displacing the small farmer; and

Excessive applications of synthetic fertilizers not only consume large quantities of fossil fuels and contribute to global warming (through the production of nitrous oxide), but they also compromise the soil’s ability to hold nutrients, cause extensive riverine and oceanic “dead zones,” and might even lessen the ability of naturally occurring

Monbiot compares the state of today’s global food system with the global financial system of 2008. According to his research, there has been an incredible corporate consolidation that massively increased the vulnerability of the system, stating that, for example, just four companies control 90% of the global grain trade.