Towards a ‘Frankenfoods’ Future
The adulteration of food for commercial purposes has a long history. Today, processed foods have replaced natural foods in the majority of shopping carts in so-called ‘developed’ countries.
March 11, 2024 | Source: World Council for Health
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 2 of this two-part article we find out that our current concerns about synthetic foods have a long history. Part 1 deals with the loss of family farms and you can find it here.