{"id":185947,"date":"2021-05-31T12:00:51","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T11:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=185947"},"modified":"2021-05-28T07:12:29","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T06:12:29","slug":"future-of-planetary-and-peoples-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/05\/future-of-planetary-and-peoples-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Future of Planetary and People\u2019s Health"},"content":{"rendered":"

A reflection on why we must avoid fake food, fake science , face economics which puts profits above people and planet.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

27 May 2021 – <\/em>The Health and Climate Emergency are interconnected : Their common roots are an energy intensive, chemical intensive corporate controlled globalized food system that puts profits above people and planet.<\/p>\n

We are living in the midst of a major public health emergency, as well as a Climate emergency .<\/p>\n

296,000 people have died in India due to Covid 19 . Last year Cyclone Amphan , this year cyclone Tauktae on the West Coast , and Cyclone Yaas in the Bay of Bengal have taken hundreds of lives .<\/p>\n

Both the health disaster and the climate disaster are interconnected . We are part of the Earth, not separate from her . We are not her masters and manipulators .<\/p>\n

The rich and powerful who see themselves as masters of nature do not respect planetary boundaries and ecosystems limits.They violate the intrinsic value of species and ecosystem , and ecological processes through the planet and people maintain their health .Their limitless greed that respects no limits has given us both the health emergency and the climate emergency.<\/p>\n

A small group of global corporations have designed\u00a0 food systems for maximizing extraction of profits that destroy people\u2019s health and the planets health .<\/p>\n

The western corporate food system is designed for creating disease and climate change as externalities of profit maximization.<\/p>\n

This toxic industrial food system is contributing to hunger, malnutrition, epidemics and chronic disease. Large scale Industrial globalised agriculture is producing nutritionally empty toxic \u2018food\u2019 commodities. Commodities do not feed people .\u00a0 90% of corn and soya goes to biofuel and animal feed<\/p>\n

Intensive industrial agriculture is\u00a0 creating a health crisis, by producing nutritionally empty toxic commodities. More than 2 billion people suffer from food related diseases.<\/p>\n

Industrial agriculture and ultra processed food contributes to 75% of food related chronic diseases.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Source: https:\/\/navdanyainternational.org\/wp-content\/ uploads\/2019\/01\/Manifesto-Food-for-Health-Cibo-per-la- Salute.pdf<\/p>\n

https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/32761763\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Most chronic diseases are related to chemicals in food and to ultraprocessed food . They damage our gut microme which needs chemical free , diverse foods in the diet .Roundup Resistant soya bean has increased the use of Roundup which is destroying biodiversity of plants and pollinators and also the biodiversity in the gut microbiome .<\/p>\n

Pandemics also have their roots in the limitless expansion into forests by agribusiness to grow commodities like GMO soya .Ebola, Zika, HIV, SARS .. are among the 300 new infectious diseases that have emerged in the last 3 decades as forest ecosystems have given way to large agribusiness agriculture like GMO soya in the Amazon and palm oil in Indonesia.<\/p>\n

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