1. Broken Agriculture The World Agricultural System: Feast or Famine?

4. Where do you buy groceries?

5. Prepared to buy your groceries at Wal-Mart? Wal-Mart facts: –World’s largest corporation –Customer base is 80% of the US population –2% of US GDP/annum –CA sales 2007 –Top grocery retailer in US

6. Growth of Transnational Agribusiness Corporations Agribusiness Corporations Cheaper costs of foreign resources Optimized access to raw materials Incentives from foreign governments (ie NAFTA) Domestic export subsides Lower/no taxes Less economic, environmental and governmental regulation and enforcement Less transparency in operations

7. Results: Increased corporate profit, decreased corporate social responsibility Corporate consolidation –Larger monopolies and increased control Decreased National Secuirty US Trade deficit Increased Rural Poverty

8. Corporate Consolidation in Agribusiness Consolidation: Vertical and Horizontal Banana industry: top 3 corporations Chiquta, Dole and Del Monte = 66% of world market US Dairy Industry Consolidation (1985-1997) Cargill - soy savvy, palm oil megafarmers in Indonesia – enemy of Orangutans?

9. The current price of Soy and Palm Oil.

10. FDA Unable to Monitor Food Imports FDA-regulated food imports have doubled in last 5 yrs FDA monitors >9 mil entries of imported food/yr 60% of national supply of food is imported FDA admits that its import monitoring and inspection resources are “challenged” Unsafe food causes 76 mil illnesses and 5000 deaths per annum

11. Blind Faith It’s safe if you say it is Unregulated food ingredient imports US consumers bear the health risks –Melamine scandal –Salmonella –E.coli O157:H7E.coli O157:H7

12. Salmonella (typhimurium) Escherichia coli O157:H7

13. World Hunger A new threshold for chronic malnutrition The world produces enough food Hunger is due to food pricing and distribution issues Access to food is hampered by poverty, war natural disasters and food stockpiling

14. Environmental Costs

15. GMOs and Pharming “With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility”

16. Organics are the solution, right? Organic Industry –20% growth/annum –Revenue in 2006: 18 billion –Increasing TNC participation Organic Pesticides TNCs Monocultures

17. A More Integrated Food Paradigm Environmental issues: polyculture farming Health issues: support organics, eat more simply, eat less processed foods, GMO labeling Distribution and National Security: Local farming Local agricultural systems: Farmer’s markets, CSAs Urban and sub-urban farmingUrban and sub-urban farming Food Not Lawns Urban farming at San Diego City College

18. What can I do to help? Transform our tastes: eat less processed food Think global, eat local - choke the supply by dousing demand Eat seasonally Reconnect with the art of food by preparing more of your own meals Try growing some of your food yourself Support locally owned businesses Speak out against TNACsTNACs

19. Links: Replace the White House Lawn with a Veggie Garden! http://www.eattheview.org/ ROOTS Sustainable Food Project http://www.sandiegoroots.org/index.html San Diego Food Not Lawns http://www.sdfoodnotlawns.com/index.html San Diego Farm Bureau http://www.sdfarmbureau.org/BuyLocal/Farmers-Markets.php San Diego Community Gardens http://communityfarmsandgardens.org/?page_id=6 Sustainable Urban Gardens http://www.sacgardens.org/index.html Eco-Urban Development http://www.ljurban.com/2008/05/24/eco-urban-101/ Vertical Farming http://verticalfarm.com/