food system

Teach-In: Cargill's Corporate Personhood and Impacts on our Food System

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 01/12/2012 - 18:16

Want to discuss the problems of corporate personhood as they relate to BigAg?
We will case study Cargill and talk about issues such as:

-Corporate Personhood 101
-BigAg Executives & FDA: revolving door
-Cargill's role in NAFTA and Free Trade agreements
-Impacts of Cargill's monopolization of the food chain
-"Commericalization of photosynthesis" and impacts for the 99%
-What we can DO about it

Taxonomy upgrade extras: 
Environment
Corruption
action
Solidarity
fda
decolonization
Health
GMO
Food Justice
corporate personhood
food system
profit
revolving door
Event date: 
Sun, 01/15/2012 - 12:30 to 15:30

'Citizens' Arrest' of Cargill, Inc.

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 01/11/2012 - 20:00

WANTED by the 99% for profiteering off people and planet: Cargill, Inc.

Help stage a citizens’ arrest in front of the Minneapolis Grain Exchange to apprehend Cargill Inc. as a corporate impostor posing as a person with constitutional rights, and hold Cargill accountable for its crime of prioritizing profits over people and planet.

Taxonomy upgrade extras: 
Direct Action
Coalition
action
nonviolence
Cargill
Solidarity
Sustainability
Economic Justice
decolonization
Agriculture
Food Justice
anti-colonial
turkey
Farmers
cowflesh
recall
methylmercury
pricefixing
bulldozing
rainforest
occupy
organic
corporation
food system
food supply
farmily
food saftey
Event date: 
Sat, 01/21/2012 - 09:30 to 11:00