COVID-19 Shows Why We Must Socialize the Food System

Posted on AllSides April 19th, 2020
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OPINION

The COVID-19 crisis is revealing a basic contradiction at the heart of capitalism. On the one hand, we have learned that this virus is itself a product of our capitalist agricultural system. As Rob Wallace and coauthors argue, the conditions for virus transmission are rooted in our propensity to clear-cut dense, wild forests — often the reservoirs of viruses themselves — and replace them with homogenous plantation ecologies like palm oil or livestock operations with one species of animal crowded together.

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https://jacobinmag.com/2020/04/covid-food-system-coronavirus-agriculture-farming

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