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Big Food Must Go: Why We Need to Radically Change the Way We Eat

This is not a problem we can solve by going vegetarian or vegan, or buying organic and fair trade.

It is no longer news that a few powerful corporations have literally occupied the vast majority of human sustenance. The situation is perilous: nearly all of human food production, seeds, food processing and sales, is run by a handful of for-profit firms which, like any capitalist enterprise, function to maximize profit and gain ever-greater market share and control. The question has become: What do we do about this disastrous alignment of pure profit in something so basic and fundamental to human survival?

http://www.alternet.org/food/154311/big ... ay_we_eat/

Diet for a Dead Planet: How the Food Industry Is Killing Us
by Christopher Cook

http://www.amazon.com/Diet-Dead-Planet- ... 1565848640