Food Network

Creating a food network is undoubtedly among the first concrete and most viable initiatives we should implement immediately.

The food network involves, on the one hand, farmers, ranchers, fishermen, farms, and artisans in the sector, as well as the end customers, households, and small entrepreneurs in the restaurant and food distribution sectors.

The World Economic Forum seems intent on concentrating food production and distribution into agribusiness multinational corporate control, utilizing technology to produce genetically modified and bioengineered laboratory produced food. At the same time, small farms are systematically being driven from the market. The World Economic Forum’s concerns are always couched in Agency 2030 “sustainability” language, combined with the message that traditional methods of farming, the use of nitrogen-based fertilizers, and the consumption of meat are all to be restricted in pursuit of achieving net zero levels of CO2 production. The World Economic Forum’s so-called Food Innovation Hubs (FUBs)—located in various parts of the world, have generated the “No Farms, No Food” farm protests across Europe. These protests have tied up major cities like Berlin and Paris with farm tractors driven into the central business districts from the fares.

Criminal policies endanger the existence of farmers, but this attack—based on climate fraud and the alleged negative environmental impact of farming and ranching—can only be thwarted if citizens know what is happening and engage together in a concrete action that is relatively easy to accomplish. Remember that the insane regulations imposed by regional governments like the European Union are accompanied by scandalous speculation by large retailers, with the courtly complicity of farmers’ unions. The prices at which fruits and vegetables are sold in supermarkets come to be as much as ten times higher than the cost at which those products are purchased from farmers, with speculation that benefits large retailers and increasingly impoverishes growers who are already challenged by green delusions and the systematic destruction of crops and livestock by arson, geoengineering, and livestock pandemics. Avian flu—like the swine flu plague a decade ago—is now being used as an excuse to wipe out entire farms, cause a shortage of meat, eggs, and dairy products, and thus have the pretext to put on the market synthetic foods, insect meal, beetle milk, and lab-produced meat.

The idea of the food network is based on organizing a supply/demand exchange between producers and end customers, guaranteeing that natural products are not genetically modified and not subjected to harmful treatments. This “ethical market” could occur locally, periodically, to create “temporary communities” of exchange and discussion.

We would call them agoras, after the Greek name for the squares where citizens gathered in ancient times. There should be markets for healthy, fresh food sold without intermediaries and at prices that allow legitimate profits for the producer and reasonable savings (compared to supermarket prices) for families. The benefit would be immediate on both fronts, allowing for diversification and increased supply.

Suppose a farmer knows that he has a loyal local customer base. In that case, he can produce, for example, several varieties of fruit by non-intensive methods instead of just one variety to sell at meager prices to the wholesaler. Farmers can raise pigs and cows outdoors and with natural processes instead of investing in intensive farms that require many animals and minimize quality. Bakers, butchers, cheese and dairy vendors, and small artisans could also be found in these agoras: depending on the context in which each of these communities develops, those activities that are most present in the local area could be favored and, if some products are not locally available, exchange relationships could be created with other agoras, so that each person could sell what they have in abundance and buy (or simply barter) what they do not have.

A website or an app could give the possibility to coordinate these realities, to enter one’s activity, and to know where and when markets are organized.

You can well imagine that this exchange of products also implies an exchange of ideas, a sharing of ideals and principles, and a shared vision that goes beyond the sale of vegetables and jams: it allows for socialization and the creation of territorially organized groups, capable of actions with social and political impact, especially at the local level.

The mayor of a rural community cares more about his election by helping his constituents than about pandering to the follies of government technocrats. Given the cost-of-living increases caused by programmed inflation, the mayor of a non-rural town has every interest in helping his citizens by offering them the opportunity to buy directly from producers, or at least not preventing them from organizing. And suppose a mayor or governor does not want to encourage and support these initiatives. In that case, there will undoubtedly be a candidate who will want to ride this battle — which is entirely laudable — by making these agoras known even where these were not yet widespread.

It is foreseeable that as citizens begin to exercise their rights as responsible consumers critically, there could be chain stores or supermarkets that decide to support this initiative and agree with farmers and breeders on ethical contracts, committing to share the anti-global- ist vision and to favor natural and healthy farming and ranching.

Of course, with electronic commerce, we are always in enemy land. We will have to remember always to favor cash transactions and direct and personal contact with those who share our ideas: we may meet teachers with whom we can organize parent schools for our children, or doctors from whom we can get treatment without fear of being harmed; we may meet people with whom we can meet again, and maybe in those places there is also a space for children to play, a tent for Sunday Mass, a corner for those who want to play music, or an area dedicated to barbecue. It will be nice to see how little it takes, in those moments, to have a cell phone to make friends and to discover that, in the end, we are not as few and as strange as the mainstream would like.

The Agora App could also allow the sale of products online, enabling even those without a nearby community to support participating farms.

The food network can be a decisive element in building resistance because we all need to eat, and we cannot put our own and our children’s health at risk by believing that the products on the market in large-scale distribution are not poisoned or manipulated, moreover at exorbitant prices.

And suppose a company cares so much about proclaiming itself environmentally sustainable and adhering to Agenda 2030. In that case, it should not be surprising if that is enough for us to decide to boycott it, and doing so will be accessible when a list of brands is available on the Alliance website. As the climate narrative collapses, few businesses will decide to distance themselves from globalism and stand on the opposite side. At that point — and it will be the agoras’ main merit — it will become fashionable to be an anti-globalist.

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