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More Food, More Hunger: How Capitalism Turned Food Against Us
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42:35Now PlayingFood is more abundant than ever – but between rising prices, food insecurity, and a crisis of food affordability, we’re getting sicker and hungrier at the same time.
In this live FREE (Forum for Real Economic Emancipation) event, economist Clara Mattei, writer and food-systems scholar Raj Patel (Stuffed and Starved), Cherokee chef and organizer Nico Albert Williams, and Tulsa food justice leader Katie Plohocky unpack how capitalism turns our food system against us – manufacturing hunger, sickness, food deserts, and environmental collapse instead of nourishment.
They trace how the modern food system was built to maximize profit, not health: from plantations and empire to ultra-processed food, diabetes, food deserts, and today’s food insecurity and affordability crisis. Along the way they connect hunger, obesity, climate breakdown, austerity, incarceration, and food sovereignty into one story: a political economy of life versus a political economy of death.
You’ll hear about:
• How cheap food, cheap labor, and cheap land power today’s capitalist food system
• Why we live in a world that is “stuffed and starved” at the same time
• How food banks, supermarket chains, and agribusiness keep hunger in place
• Indigenous and local food sovereignty work in Tulsa and across the globe
• Community gardens, co-ops, and mutual aid as tools for food justice and survival
• Cooperative stores, community farms, and movements fighting for real food justice
If you’ve ever wondered why your grocery bill keeps going up in a world of plenty, and what communities are doing about it, this conversation is for you.
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