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Humans comprehend the complicated environment in which they live by focusing on smaller, more tangible objects and relationships.
Face-to-face relationships, families, and stories of human struggle are used as metaphors, analogies, and models to help us make sense of difficult abstractions like class structure, racism, and the national economy.
In other words, the real and immediate provide frames for more abstract concepts.
Because they are idealized and based on what happens at the most basic levels of social organization, their characteristics are never totally analogous to those of societal social processes, which have attributes (similar to ecosystems) that can exist only at those more complicated levels.
Furthermore, these models frequently contain specific biases that end up shaping our perceptions when they are expanded by analogy to higher social levels.
As long as the economic logic of the food system demands that wealth be accumulated and concentrated upward, the model of industrial agriculture will persist as the most rational and efficient means for allowing this to happen.
And as long as industrial agriculture dominates the food system, the world’s poorest people and the planet’s life-support systems will continue to bear the brunt of its costs—with the consequences eventually extending to everyone
The existing food system is unsustainable in large part because of a core system dynamic: it is organized around the pursuit of private profit and the shifting of costs onto communities and natural systems.
If everyone recognized these key aspects of the food system—that it generates inequality, concentrates power and wealth, and degrades the natural systems on which food production depends—then the food system would not be seen as legitimate.
A Change in Food System:
Working for tangible changes in society and the food system may be difficult and incremental, but it has the essential impact of assisting the delegitimization campaign.
the existing global food system, corporate dominance, and its consequences
dependence on industrial agriculture practices.
Engage and integrate multiple disciplines and knowledge systems (including indigenous and traditional ones) to focus on practical issues.
Involve a wide range of stakeholders as active participants in an iterative process in which practical research informs social-change activities and those efforts result in new initiatives. information that motivates greater inquiry.
Create local food networks that revitalize farming as a livelihood and bring consumers and producers closer together through community-supported agriculture and other ways.
Encourage individuals to transcend their consumer sensibilities and become food citizens who understand the political, economic, and social implications of every act of consuming.
The present alternative food movement may become a force for good if it has a clear grasp of the need for change. Food justice and resistance for all.
Changing the food system is a tall task since it involves fundamentally altering how humans connect to nature, land, resources, the earth's biota, and each other. However, if mankind is to successfully tackle the difficulties posed by climate change, widespread ecological collapse, and population expansion, these connections must shift.
Why is human society pursuing an unsustainable agricultural path?
By
Akhil Srinivas KH (KHAS)
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