Putting the Squeeze on Farming

The ‘war on farmers’ that we see playing out in many countries is nothing new.

Lawyer Alexis Baden-Mayer is Political Director of the Organic Consumers Association, a US-based organisation advocating for consumers’ rights to safe, healthful food and other products; a just food and farming system; and a biodiversity-rich environment, free of pollutants. One of the many programmes she coordinates is the Real Farms Not Fake Food campaign. Its two interlocking aims are:

• to stop mega-corporations, through the World Economic Forum (WEF), driving farmers off their land, and
• to stop the replacement of natural foods with synthetic, genetically engineered molecules.

During Better Way Today on 4 March 2024, Alexis traced the historical roots of these issues with World Council for Health (WCH) Steering Committee member, Christof Plothe DO. In Part 1 of this two-part article we learn about efforts since the 1940s to reduce the number of small farms in the USA. Part 2 deals with concerns about synthetic foods.