I would be interested in reading some article comparing food related<div><br></div><div>&quot;land enclosure&quot; vs &quot;gene enclosure&quot;</div><div>( + &quot;monetised market&quot; enclosure on food ? )</div><div><br>
</div><div>who in my current view , </div><div>in addition to the direct monetary gains made by capitalists,</div><div>both have deep potential economic and political impact in favor of the capitalist mode of &quot;control&quot; on populations,</div>
<div>by taking control on food production;</div><div><br></div><div>Directly and indirectly :</div><div><br></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Goliath_and_David:_Monsanto&#39;s_Legal_Battles_against_Farmers">http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Goliath_and_David:_Monsanto&#39;s_Legal_Battles_against_Farmers</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><a href="http://www.truth-out.org/farmers-sue-usda-over-monsanto-alfalfa-again68656">http://www.truth-out.org/farmers-sue-usda-over-monsanto-alfalfa-again68656</a><br>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>As far as I remember reading,</div><div>capitalist &quot;land enclosure&quot; has had dramatic impact on various societies.</div><div><br></div><div>such as</div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_Clearances">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_Clearances</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Sometimes ( usually ? ) forced movement of people into cities, </div><div>where capitalists needed populations to work in industries,</div><div>industries on which such labor became dependent for survival - as it lost the potential to grow its food on its own land.</div>
</div><div><br></div><div>How is the ownership of current arable land distributed ?</div><div>In the United States ? In Europe ? On other continents ?</div><div><br></div><div>And of the arable land that is owned by small producers,</div>
<div>how much do they produce and of what :</div><div>- what part of it is organic food ? </div><div>- is it more expensive , and if so, how much more ? </div><div>- bought by whom ? </div><div><br></div><div>What is the current &quot;measurable&quot; risk of monopoly on food production ?</div>
<div>And of this measurable monopoly risk on food access safety,</div><div>what are the risks inherent to :</div><div><br></div><div>- ( dependency on ) <b>finance </b></div><div>( as seen when sudden increase of price of crops due to financial speculation <a href="goog_1229533413">- link - </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 23px; "><a href=" http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_round_up/542538/goldman_sachs_makes_1_billion_profit_on_food_price_speculation.html">Goldman Sachs makes $1 billion profit on food price speculation</a> )</span></div>
<div>- gene ownership</div><div>- land ownership</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>// What legal propositions could be made to support and empower further &quot;food safety&quot; ?</div><div><br></div><div>// What tools could be used to visualize ( economic, political, ecological, social , ... )</div>
<div>impact of consumer choices on food related ecosystems ?</div><div><br></div><div>What happens in the case monopolists decide to &quot;create&quot; a - food - crisis, to gain political control ?</div><div>How many people, in the current, and potential near future, could die of malnutrition due to dependency on monopolist food producing systems ?</div>
<div><br></div><div>How many people are dying in this present moment, due to artificially created famine ? ...due to monetisation / monetised market monopoly on access to food - or potential food production ?</div><div><br>
</div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><a href="http://www.wfp.org/hunger/stats">http://www.wfp.org/hunger/stats</a></div><div><br></div><div>Past example in an area with ample food production :</div>
<div><br></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor</a></div><div><i><br></i></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; font-family: sans-serif; "><i>was a man-made famine in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic" title="Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Ukrainian SSR</a>, part of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_famine_of_1932%E2%80%931933" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Soviet famine of 1932–1933</a>. During the famine, which is also known as the &quot;terror-famine in Ukraine&quot; and &quot;famine-genocide in Ukraine&quot;,<sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; font-weight: normal; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor#cite_note-0" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span>[</span>1<span>]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; font-weight: normal; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span>[</span>2<span>]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; font-weight: normal; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><span>[</span>3<span>]</span></a></sup> millions of Ukrainians died of starvation in a peacetime catastrophe unprecedented in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Ukraine" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">history of Ukraine</a>.</i></span></div>