49-28A Corporations are playing with our food – and our heads

From kitchen tables worldwide you can hear a chorus of parents chastising their children with the same refrain: “Stop playing with your food.”

Children aside, this rebuke needs to be loudly directed at the profiteers of industrial agriculture. They keep toying with the very nature of food, not to benefit consumers, family farmers, workers, or the environment – but to fatten the profits of Silicon Valley tech giants, food monopolists, and Wall Street financiers.