{"id":252115,"date":"2024-05-29T10:30:37","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T09:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/?post_type=snippet&p=252115"},"modified":"2024-05-21T21:23:46","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T20:23:46","slug":"thought-for-food","status":"publish","type":"snippet","link":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/snippet\/thought-for-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Thought for food"},"content":{"rendered":"

You’ve heard of ‘climate justice’ but what about ‘epistemic justice’? This is the idea put forward by international food experts<\/a> that knowledge should be democratised so that global food systems can incorporate ‘traditional, Indigenous, and place-based knowledges into decision-making processes to address blind spots in current food system policies and actions’.<\/p>\n

Nothing wrong with this proposal, except that it won’t work. Capitalist production is a secretive, competitive affair pursued only for profit. It’s not interested in being open, collaborative, democratic or even in feeding people. Its decision-making processes are a private matter. Its blind spots prefer to remain blind.<\/p>\n

What else would you expect in a chaotic rollercoaster of boom & slump market fluctuations? Ditch capitalism first, then let’s talk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-252115","snippet","type-snippet","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet\/252115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/snippet"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}