An exchange with one of my farming neighbours that took place about three years ago has stuck in my memory. He barely glanced towards a field on another neighbour’s patch that was being transitioned from monoculture to polyculture and, with a dismissive gesture, said “That’s a shit crop”. This was his response to a challenge to the monocultural status quo.
Our food system is set up for monoculture, and by practising this we are choosing to grow crops, not for health, but for disease. The very corporates that have sold this system to us are then able to sell the ‘solutions’ in the form of vaccines and pesticides back to farmers who have become tied in. The corporates also own pharmaceuticals so can sell us the medication that we need due to the toxicity of our food and environment. We are dependent on them and love shopping, and they wield huge political power.
Back in 1996 Monsanto executive Robert Fraley said, “What you're seeing is not just a consolidation of seed companies, it's a consolidation of the entire food chain,” and this process continues apace. Disease and pandemics are extremely profitable, and the continued intensification of our food system will hasten the pandemic cycle and boost dividends, which explains why the question of Why we are in a pandemic cycle is taboo.
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