Abstract
Opening paragraph: Do foodies need to know about capitalism? Everybody trying to change the food system—farmers, farmworkers, chefs, people fighting to end hunger and diet-related disease—all of us need to know about capitalism. Why? Because we have a capitalist food system. After all, you wouldn’t start farming without knowing something about growing plants, or start a website without knowing something about computers, or fix the roof on a house without knowing something about carpentry. I know, most of us are too busy trying to solve problems within the food system to sit around analyzing the food system as a whole. We concentrate on one or two issues—healthy food access, organic agriculture, GMO labeling, pesticide poisoning, seed sovereignty… The list is long. On top of that, we don’t really talk about capitalism in capitalist countries. Before the 2008 financial crash, it was awkward even to mention the term ‘capitalism.’ But the truth is our food and capitalism have co-evolved over the last 200 years. If we want to know about our food system, we have to know about capitalism. That way, we can change it. See the press release for this article. 
Highlights
Note This article is adapted from a keynote address entitled Capitalism, Food, and Social Movements: The Political Economy of Food System Transformation at the Place-Based Food Systems Conference, hosted by the Institute for Sustainable Food Systems at Kwantlen Polytechnic University on August 9, 2018
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Summary
Global Hunger by Region about today, that there just isn’t enough food in the world. As an owner of capital, I have to expand markets beyond my workers, who don’t make enough money (or need) to buy all the widgets they produce.
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