Our Food is Killing Us

By Urban AG Report On Sep 28, 2023

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In this Our Changing Climate climate change video essay, I examine the causes and destruction of our current industrialized food system. Specifically, I dive into the capitalist commodification of food, and how most of the industrialized farming that takes place in the imperial core doesn’t produce crops for our consumption. Instead, the majority of the “food” we grow goes toward animal feed and biofuels. In addition, the fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides that our current industrialized farming system gobbles up are derived from fossil fuels. Essentially, fossil fuel corporations are laundering their dirty fuels through the very chemicals farmers use to grow their crops. Our food system is broken. We’re in desperate need of a new agro-ecological revolution.

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Timestamps:
0:00 – Intro
1:23 – The Shape of Industrial Agriculture
4:03 – Our Food is Fossil Fuels
9:40: Get Big or Get Out
12:59 – Industrial Agriculture’s Environmental Destruction
17:49 – Beyond Capitalist Agriculture
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