What's the problem?
Our global food system was built on exploitation – and still runs on it today.
Rooted in colonialism, slavery, and environmental destruction, the industrial food system was shaped by British Empire corporations chasing profit.
From the enslavement of Black Africans to the indenture of East and South-East Asian workers on plantations, this system wreaked havoc on land, communities, and ecosystems in the pursuit of wealth
The legacy lives on: today’s food system continues to harm people and the planet, especially in the Global South, while workers and communities suffer the consequences.
And yet, there’s still no accountability for big food corporations or ways to demand reparations.
History risks repeating itself: just as the Slave Compensation Act 1837 paid slave owners rather than those who were enslaved, today the public is being asked to foot the bill for Big Agriculture’s so-called “green transition”.
Enough is enough. It’s time for Big Agriculture to pay for the harm it has caused.
