I’ll be appearing as a speaker on the upcoming on-line symposium “Attack on Food and Farmers and How to Fight Back” sponsored by Dr. Meryl Nass and her Door to Freedom movement.
My topic is “Food Sovereignty,” focusing on the contemporary Native American experience.
Door to Freedom is promoting a grassroots movement for better food. This means better quality food at a time when the whole trend of international macroeconomics is for worse quality.
Of course the corporations that control much of the food supply have always tried to cut costs and maximize profits.
But today the situation is increasingly worse to the point of becoming catastrophic. This is shown by the precipitous drop in U.S. life expetancy of around three years since 2019. The U.S. now ranks 60th among countries in life expectancy, behind countries like Estonia and Saudi Arabia.
Some of this decline is due to the COVID “pandemic,” but another factor is illness connected with an unhealthy food supply.
There is also a macroeconomic context.
The U.S. is in long-term economic decline due to geopolitical factors—the proxy war against Russia in Ukraine, for example—causing a major reduction in dollar hegemony internationally and an increase in the federal debt which now amounts to over $35 trillion.
At the same time, the overall goal of the U.S. economy is to keep the stock market growing at an average rate of 3-5% compounded. Given an economy where economic growth is essentially stagnant; i.e., the only added value is through inflation; every company must cut costs even more. This means lowering wages relative to workers’ cost of living and reducing product quality, including that of food.
Lower food quality means a massive shift to “ultraprocessed food”; lower quality meat, fruits, and vegetables on grocery store shelves; and greater use of fake-food chemicals as substitutes for nutritious ingredients.
In order to get away with all this, big corporations and their captured federal government agencies are waging war on small producers and alternative food suppliers, such as marketers of raw milk.
But people are standing up for their rights to live a healthy lifestyle—producers and consumers alike.
Please join us for the “Attack on Food and Farmers and How to Fight Back” event on September 6-7, 2024, to find out more about how you can support the effort.
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Richard C. Cook is a co-founder and lead investigator for the American Geopolitical Institute. Mr. Cook is a retired U.S. federal analyst with extensive experience across various government agencies, including the U.S. Civil Service Commission, FDA, the Carter White House, NASA, and the U.S. Treasury. As a whistleblower at the time of the Challenger disaster, he exposed the flawed O-ring joints that destroyed the Shuttle, documenting the event in his book “Challenger Revealed.” After serving at Treasury, he became a vocal critic of the private finance-controlled monetary system, detailing his analysis in “We Hold These Truths: The Hope of Monetary Reform.” He served as an advisor to the American Monetary Institute and worked with Congressman Dennis Kucinich to advocate for replacing the Federal Reserve with a genuine national currency. See his new book giving a revisionist view of U.S. history: Our Country, Then and Now, Clarity Press, 2023.
