It is not “Boomer Capitalism” that destroyed your food systems. Depending on how you personally define “Boomer Capitalism”, it’s a symptom of or completely confused for existing in a fiat monetary system.
The fertile soil for the destruction of your food systems were laid long before boomers were even born.
Everything boils down to the economics. Inflationsim and government subsidies make the most clownish of activities economical.
Why are vast swaths of land dedicated to growing nutrient devoid food? Government has been subsidizing their growth for decades. It’s (artificially) economical.
Why is Round-Up Ready Corn the standard?
Hiring several workers to individually spray the weeds around the crops is more expensive than creating a GMO crop that can be crop dusted en masse with toxic pesticides. It’s (artificially) economical.
Why do almost all restaurants fry the food in seed oils?
Restaurants run on pretty thin margins as it is and even more so when inflation hits the proteins so frying in artificially cheap seed oils is a way to cut costs. It’s (artificially) economical.
Why is almost all of the store bought beef and dairy of such low quality?
The way the agricultural subsidies are structured is so that the farmers with the most acreage and production receive most of the subsidies so these factory farms that keep the cows in dire straits, constantly producing stress and fear hormones, and kept on concrete lots, are able to churn out even more. It’s (artificially) economical.
Why is the soil so degraded?
Because those same farms as mentioned above, have a highly concentrated number of cows shoulder-to-shoulder on concrete lots. Whereas naturally you would have large swaths of land NOT taken up by GMO corn and soy - and now increasingly solar panels and wind mills - where many smaller regenerative ranching operations can flourish and allow the cows to graze and fertilize the fields naturally. Additionally, the artificially economical Round-Up Ready Corn fields that are being sprayed with toxic industrial chemicals are leeching into the soil killing it’s fertility and breaking down the aluminum in the earth that ultimately ends up in the food.
and so on and so forth.
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