It’s been several hundred years since the alleged “Let them eat cake” line. Since then, the relationship between us, the masses, and food has just gotten weird.
It’s time for us to collectively flex our GMO’d muscles. From Rachel Carson’s 1962 Silent Spring to Sandra Steingraber’s 2010 Living Downstream we know that the chemicals we use for our food and water supply are harmful to humans and destroy nature. We’ve prozac and atrazine in our water supply. Food reconditioning is legal and practiced in our public schools.
Occupying our food is about owning our health. It’s about all of us individually working towards a food-friendly food system. Food needs to be more than “safe” and calorie-rich. Food is a prime defense against illness, depression and injury. Food is medicine and should be widely available to us, sans toxins.
This movement is also about worldwide class warfare and the corporate conglomerate empire forcing decisions upon us. It is the poorest in the world who will are dying daily due to lack of healthy food and water. It is the poorest in America who are disproportionately suffering from Type II Diabetes and who live in food deserts. It is the poorest who are least likely to have a voice in politics and least likely to have political power. It is the wealthiest who receive government subsidies to deliver these products to us.
We need to hone our collective sustenance consciousness. For occupy our food supply day micro-actions, check out the brief online animation of Michael Pollan’s Food Rules, boycott Cargill and ConAgra products, sign petitions, watch documentaries (The Price of Sugar, Flow, King Corn, Food, Inc, The Future of Food (free online)), read book’s (The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Fast Food Nation) on the topic. Contact those in power. We have the resources. If we occupy our time, minds, and wallets we can free our food supply.
