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| Holt-Giménez: the food system's not "broken." It's just capitalist. |
I had a little epiphany
this morning while thinking over Eric Holt-Giménez’s keynote talk from this
weekend’s NOFAMass conference.
In his wide-ranging
overview of what capitalism and industrialism have done to our food systems, Holt-Giménez
talked about how an unexpected alliance in England’s early industrial period
helped to push back temporarily against the growing power of middle-class financiers
and manufacturers. Landed gentry, who were losing their social and economic preeminence,
made common cause with displaced and disgruntled farmers seeing their own
status and security decline.
