McDonalds will eliminate cage-confined chickens from its supply chain

[Diana]

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Hats off to the Bolivian people who rejected an evil corporation engaged in assault by poisoning the people.

That's awesome!

When I visited Bolivia in the 90's it was considered the poorest country in the world. Yet food grew naturally there; I remember seeing the indigenous people walking with large bunches of bananas. Another thing about Bolivia was that the friends I stayed with ate meat (I was a vegetarian). They told me that the meat was so much better than the U.S. meat because the animals were not brought up on factory farms and shot full of growth hormones and antibiotics. The Aztecs, before Spaniards destroyed the empire, had only the death penalty for one thing: theft. And that's because the first 3 rows of any crop were free to anyone, and therefore no one had to starve.

If we would stop poisoning the planet with pesticides and growing massive amounts of GM corn to feed livestock (which is the most inefficient exchange of energy ever), stop obliterating rain forest and species in it hence the ecosystem, and nurture the earth, there would be no starvation. I do understand the concept of "feeding the world." But that is the advertising. Factory farms are about profit. Millions are spent on advertising campaigns, paying off politicians, probably aligning with big pharma (because bad food makes people sick), lobbyists for the meat and dairy association and other organizations.

Starvation can always be tracked to greed. In the middle ages with feudal lords, it was the greed of the land owners. It is greed now. If there was a seed of an idea to feed the world from a STO perspective, it was taken over as a way to reap profits.