Monday, March 11, 2024

Concentration and Power in the Food System and The War Against Farming and Local Food Security




The EU’s globalist agenda prioritises dependency rather than local self-sufficiency, even though relying on food and oil imports poses risks.  Importing food from distant locations significantly increases fuel consumption and labour compared to producing it locally.

The World Economic Forum’s reset agenda promotes the adoption of smart devices and 5G technology, despite the potential harm of electromagnetic frequency technologies to human health.  In the farming sector, this translates to the electrification and wireless connection of everything under the guise of combating climate change and achieving net zero carbon emissions.

This new framework, although marketed as reducing CO2 emissions, remains highly polluting.  As the focus shifts to marketing and selling new “green” products, the environmental impact remains largely unchanged.

The globalist European Union (“EU”) does not seem concerned with the fact that without European farmers the 750 million people of the EU and wider Europe would be without food production on the entire European continent. All food would have to be imported using up yet more fossil fuels in transport – an obvious contradiction to the fossil-fuel/CO2 reduction agenda. Clearly, the real agenda involves creating dependency; and suppressing local or regional self-sufficiency. Furthermore, if peak oil manifests the so-called ‘cheap’ food imports to the EU will stop due to a shortage of oil and vastly inflated oil prices.

 It appears the globalists’ war against humanity, includes this war against farming. and against local food security. Author, Rosa Koire has described that UN Agenda 2030 aims to push people off of the land, become more dependent, and come into the cities:

“UN Agenda 21/Sustainable Development is a global plan that is implemented locally. Over 600 cities in the US are members… The costs are paid by taxpayers…  Although counties say that they support agricultural uses, eating locally produced food, farmer’s markets, etc, in fact, there are so many regulations restricting water and land use (there are scenic corridors, inland rural corridors, baylands corridors, area plans, specific plans, redevelopment plans, huge fees, fines) that farmers are losing their lands altogether… The push is for people to get off of the land, become more dependent, come into the cities…”  – Rosa Koire

The World Economic Forum (“WEF”) reset agenda involves the worldwide adoption of smart devices that utilise electromagnetic frequency technologies, specifically, the Internet of Things (“IoT”). The IoT is supported by 5th generation cellular technology, 5G. Note, however, that thousands of scientific studies assert that EMF-based technologies can be harmful to human health. According to the WEF:

The Internet of Things (IoT) now connects 22 billion devices in real-time, ranging from cars to hospital beds, electric grids and water station pumps, to kitchen ovens and agricultural irrigation systems… this number is expected to reach 50 billion or more by 2030.

In the farming sector, this involves the electrification and wireless connection of everything under the misleading banner of combatting climate change. Smart technology ostensibly marketed for achieving nonsensical “net zero carbon” is already being implemented in the agricultural sector. Consider this quote from a report to the UK’s Food & Drink Sector Council, by its Agricultural Productivity Working Group:





Concentration and Power in the Food System: Who Controls What We Eat?




Most of us have little to no idea how behind-the-scenes forces control the food we buy, and the depth of the corruption involved. Philip Howard, Ph.D., author of “Concentration and Power in the Food System: Who Controls What We Eat?,” studies food system changes, with an emphasis on visualizing these trends.1

“My motivation [for writing the book] was to uncover what’s going on, to help people understand who owns what and all the strategies these dominant firms use to further increase their power,” he says.

His work has been featured by many prominent media outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post and Chicago Tribune. In 2024 he is teaches undergraduate and undergraduate courses in community, food and agriculture as well as a graduate course.

He’s also an associate professor in the department of community sustainability at Michigan State University, and holds a Ph.D. in rural sociology. His two main projects in 20242 are characterizing diversity in the food system, particularly in plant seeds/animal genetics, high-protein foods and alcoholic beverages, and “bridging information gaps between food system actors, including the use of ‘ecolabels.'”

One fact that many don’t realize is just how few firms control the global food system, from seeds to supermarkets. As noted by Howard:

“The trend in most industries is for fewer and fewer firms to increase their power. One really dramatic example is the beer industry. Four firms headquartered in Europe brew about half the world’s beer. That’s going to go down to three very soon, because Anheuser-Busch InBev is acquiring SABMiller.

Even if you’re a very dominant firm, you’re caught up in this system where you have to get bigger or become acquired by your big competitors. But it’s resulting in less and less people making decisions about the food we eat. There’s even speculation that InBev is not increasing its sales enough, even with this acquisition, so they’re going to have to acquire a big soft drink firm, perhaps even Coke or Pepsi.”

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