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Feb 24

Global Day of Action to Occupy Our Food Supply

Graciela Romero Published in food justice by Graciela Romero  

Thousands around the globe will be taking direct action to stop multinational corporations Monsanto, Cargill, ADM and the likes on 27 February 2012. The Global Day of Action to Occupy Our Food Supply is bringing together people to fight back corporations’ control of our food. 

The sustainable farming, buy local, slow food, environmental and occupy movements will be reclaiming unused bank-owned lots to create community gardens, hosting seed exchanges in front of stock exchanges, labeling products on grocery store shelves that have genetically engineered ingredients, building community alliances to support locally owned grocery stores and to resist Walmart megastores (ASDA), and protesting against food giants Monsanto and Cargill. From Brazil, Hungary, Ireland, and Argentina to dozens of states in the US thousands of people will be participating.

Read more: www.OccupyOurFoodSupply.org

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