The Political Consequences of The Collapse of The Global Food System
And no one it seems, is safe….
Mohammed Bouazizi is not a name familiar to most people around the world. But his actions led to the greatest reconfiguration in the Middle-East since the end of the first world war.
What were his actions and what was the root cause?
It was Mr. Bouazizi who set himself alight at the helplessness of his economic situation in Tunisia in December 2010, thus triggering the Arab spring of 2011.
Contrary to popular belief that the Arab spring came about due to a yearning for democracy in the Middle-East, we now know that the biggest food companies on earth were indirectly responsible the collapse of longstanding regimes in Yemen, Egypt, Tunisia, Syria, Libya.
While I am not one to shed tears for the likes of Hosni Mubarak, Abdul Saleh, Gaddafi et al, it is pertinent to pay attention what happened in the recent past and understand that the events of 2011 are eminently possible today on a much greater scale.
Who are these food companies and what exactly did they do?
ADM, Bunge, Cargill and Louis Dreyfus (ABCD)are the biggest food companies in the world.