{"id":56356,"date":"2017-04-18T18:13:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T18:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/?p=56356"},"modified":"2017-04-18T18:13:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T18:13:00","slug":"battle-feed-world-david-vs-goliath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/battle-feed-world-david-vs-goliath\/","title":{"rendered":"The Battle to Feed the World: David vs. Goliath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fight over who will control our food, countryside and natural resources is heating up.<\/p>\n<p>Today, April 17th, marks the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/viacampesina.org\/en\/index.php\/actions-and-events-mainmenu-26\/17-april--day-of-peasants-struggle-mainmenu-33\/2263-int-l-day-of-peasant-struggles-2017-call-to-mobilise\">International Day of Peasant Struggles<\/a>. These \u2018peasants\u2019, or paysan in French, are the millions of small farmers who currently produce the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fao.org\/hunger\/en\/\">majority<\/a>&nbsp;of the world\u2019s food. They are the David struggling against the agribusiness Goliath \u2013 the large corporations consolidating control over global food production.<\/p>\n<p>There is little in common between these two sides. The former know that food sovereignty and small-scale ecological farming can feed the world \u2013 with food production fully in the hands of producers and consumers. The latter desire a resource intensive, chemical-based industrial farming model where control over seeds, chemicals, machinery, distribution and most importantly profits, sits in the hands of corporations.<\/p>\n<p>In the last month the European Commission approved the merger of Dow Chemicals and DuPont, and Chinese state company&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foeeurope.org\/chemchina-syngenta-mega-merger-050417\">ChemChina\u2019s acquisition of Syngenta<\/a>. Next up is the potential merger of&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foeeurope.org\/bayer-monsanto-marriage-hell-300316\">Bayer and Monsanto \u2013 a \u2018marriage made in hell\u2019<\/a>. These are some of the biggest agricultural companies ever known, true Goliaths, with market power that sends shudders through small-scale farmers worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, April 17th, marks the&nbsp;International Day of Peasant Struggles. 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They are the David struggling against the agribusiness Goliath \u2013 the large corporations consolidating control over global food production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52316,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1008,1031],"tags":[],"organicbytes":[],"countries":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Battle to Feed the World: David vs. Goliath - Organic Consumers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/battle-feed-world-david-vs-goliath\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Battle to Feed the World: David vs. Goliath - Organic Consumers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Today, April 17th, marks the&nbsp;International Day of Peasant Struggles. 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