Title: The 10 Biggest Issues with the Global Food System
Headings: The 10 Biggest Issues With the Global Food System
The 10 Biggest Issues With the Global Food System
1. Food Safety
What can you do about it?
2. Declining Wild Fish Stocks
What can you do about it?
3. Poor Aquaculture Practices
What can you do about it?
4. Genetically Modified Crops
What can you do about it?
5. Exploitation of Workers
What can you do about it?
6. Lack of Equal Access
What can you do about it?
7. Not Enough People Engaged in Agriculture
What can you do about it?
8. Monocrops
What can you do about it?
9. Finite Resources
What can you do about it?
10. Biofuel Production
What can you do about it?
Vanessa Barrington

Content: The 10 Biggest Issues with the Global Food System
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The 10 Biggest Issues With the Global Food System
October 5, 2010 by Vanessa Barrington
If you ask food experts like Michael Pollan, Marian Nestle, Gary Nabhan, Vandana Shiva, and numerous other writers and scholars what the biggest problems in our global, industrialized food system are, you’ll end up with a lot to chew on. It’s difficult to separate the problems into discrete categories because everything is connected. Big problems lead to seemingly smaller problems, that, when allowed to fester, become open wounds – much like the foul waste lagoons on industrial pig farms that dot our landscape, or the actual wounds on human flesh caused by antibiotic resistant staph infections, which are a direct result of the overuse of antibiotics in livestock operations. Most of the problems in the system stem from one giant problem: Concentration of power, land, wealth, and political influence in the hands of a few large players who have gamed the system for their benefit. Here are the biggest issues, as we see them, followed by suggestions for what you can do about them. 1. Food Safety
Big players in the meat, dairy, eggs, and bagged greens industries are unsafe at any speed. Nobody paying attention to the news over the past few years could have missed the biggest food recall stories, nor the very real harm and deaths that have resulted from many of them. E-coli in beef has sickened many, killed some, and ruined lives.