George Monbiot

Yeah, well, Mick makes some very good points in the article, and he's completely right.

Our food system is not being designed to secure food for us.

It's not being designed to ensure we get a good, balanced and affordable diet.

It's designed for some people to make profits off it.

And governments say, and it's the same with my government here in the UK,

All over the world, they say, well, we'll leave it to the market to work this out.

And when they say the market, it's this convenient abstraction, this thing, the market.

You might think of a little street market with stripy awnings, right?

But the market means a few big global corporations.

And there's a very few of them now really control almost the whole food system.

And they couldn't give a damn about whether you and I are properly fed.

It's all about the bottom line.

It's all about their profits and their share prices.

And they are not the people.

who are going to ensure that we continue to get to eat and that we can get to eat the food we want.

Yeah, I mean, it really is madness.

And it's not that food localism is the answer to everything.

Food nationalism and food security aren't the same thing because being able to buy from elsewhere does smooth things out if you have a bad harvest at home.

But having no local production or almost no local production is total madness.

And I think there is an answer.