Abolitionist Agroecology, Food Sovereignty and Pandemic Prevention
Abolitionist Agroecology, Food Sovereignty and Pandemic Prevention COVID-19 has exposed the racialized nature of food systems, but also potentially grants opportunities to build anew. She traces the…
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Abolitionist Agroecology, Food Sovereignty and Pandemic Prevention
COVID-19 has exposed the racialized nature of food systems, but also potentially grants opportunities to build anew. She traces the likely origins of COVID-19 to spillover sites forged by agroindustrial expansion into forested regions where pathogens spring free and infect humans. Maywa Montenegro explores a series of breakdowns, from fractured supply chains to uncontrolled infection among essential food workers to Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities scythed through by the virus along old grooves of race-class oppression.
Pandemics have their roots in the violent separation of communities from their territories, seeds, knowledge and wealth. Industrial animal agriculture drives these ecological changes that incubate future outbreaks. Racism enables such theft as fundamental to capitalist expansion.
To tackle pandemics and food injustices, Montenegro calls for an abolitionist
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