One of the greatest concerns for Global Citizens should be the fact that the vast majority of our food supply has been taken over by multinational corporations and that citizens who grow their own food are about as common as dogs that can talk. Not only that, but our food is now so overly-processed and loaded with chemicals that our people from the 18th Century would probably not recognize 95% of what is on sale in the average grocery as even being food.
Indeed, what passes for food in most of the West (especially America) in the early 21st Century is not really food at all, but chemically-infused high fructose corn syrup spoon fed to us by agribusiness corporations. This so-called "food" is making us sick, making us fat, and making us dependent upon their model of industrialized food production. It is destructive of the environment and degrading to our sense of human dignity.
More than anyone else, the American author Michael Pollan has been putting these issues front and center in recent years. In his outstanding books, particularly In Defense of Food and An Omnivore's Dilemma, he has done a great public service in raising awareness about the need for all of us to reassess our relationship with what we eat and question whether or not it makes sense for us to continue eating whatever it is the multinational corporations continue to serve up for us. All Global Citizens should read these books and become that much more enlightened.
Below is the video of a talk that Michael Pollan gave for the Authors-At-Google lecture series.
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