For years, governments and institutions responsible for food safety have been trying to develop a complex legal structure and a complete way of measures that can help to eliminate a host of infectious diseases contracted by developed societies, but may not have solved the problem of worldwide hunger.
Moreover, low quality food production may have generated environmental degradation, for which redemption may not be observed in many years to come.
Food Poisoning is Common, and the Politics of Food May Have Something to do With It.
Massive food poisoning outbreaks in the human population, including those of low-dose poisoning, manifest almost every day.
It is by prevention measures, medications for animals providing consumable meat, and other methods imposed by government entities involved in the politics of food, that people can rid themselves of the risks associated with food poisoning.
Medications given to animals lacking disease can also cause problems in the food industry. In addition, conditions are constantly worsening over sick animals that are not properly medicated and cared for.
According to Diego Santiago of the Toxicology Department at the University of Córdoba, the usual safety and regulatory measures put in place by people who have a governing hand in the politics of food are simply inadequate. To make matters worse, there is a lesser amount of time allocated to the application of certain processing techniques and harvesting methods imposed by officials involved in the politics of food that would otherwise make fruits and vegetables safer.
What do Low Food Prices Have to do With the Politics of Food?
The overall decline in the world’s market are pushing more and more farmers to produce at lower prices, forcing them to place much of their industry in the hands of commercial firms that offer the whole package through which formidable technology will achieve the profitability they may not necessarily require, but desire.
Consequently, investments will increase and the farmer neglects traditional ways of providing healthy foods, as they begin to worry more about the risk of large economic losses, using all means at their disposal.
This pattern represents excessive and inefficient energy consumption, a high amount of chemical use and the use of machinery and technology, land erosion, desertification, pollution and destruction of the planet's biodiversity. In doing so, they force small farmers from their land at all costs and serve up the profits of the agro-chemical megacompanies for their own collective welfare.
The consequences of this situation are:
- World hunger has not declined but has increased over the last twenty years (Monsanto Files, The Ecologist. ).
- The poor are getting poorer and marginalized. (Ignacio Ramonet, Le Monde Diplomatique, 1998)
- Natural resources are plundering as a result of the big transnational corporations involved in energy production, chemicals, seeds, wood, etc. (Greenpeace, 1992)
- This continues to drive farmers from the family farm to continue to have cheap labor in the congested areas. (Vandana Shiva, Staying Alive, 1989)
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