6 Ways To Improve Your Food Security
There are six steps that you can implement to start to ensure that you have food security. You can secure yourself against Big Agriculture and Big Food, which dominate the grocery stores.
Finding ways to improve your food security is always a good idea. With rising food prices and the experience of big box stores not always carrying what you need due to supply chain shortages or other causes, it is critical to find ways to become more self-sufficient.
Toilet paper will be the least of your concerns if you need help getting the proper nutrition you need to function fully. In a society that has become increasingly centralized, industrialized factory farming has eliminated smaller independent family farms. Along with killing off generational family businesses, it makes people rely more on Big Agriculture for their food, from meat to eggs to vegetables.
Big Food creates the illusion of choice when you go to the grocery store by making you believe there are more competitors than there are. EcoWatch provides one, among many examples of the illusion of choice when you go to the supermarket:
Consumers are led to believe they are choosing among competitors, when many different products are actually made by the same firm. For example, ConAgra sells six varieties of popcorn. This is true even for healthful foods; Kellogg’s owns both Kashi and Bear Naked brands, though their packaging and websites make them seem independent.
Centralization is a problem because it creates a single point of failure. The more things centralized, from food to retail to government, the fewer choices and options. If something were to happen to the few companies that run Big Agriculture or Big Food, you might quickly discover just how dependent you are upon the current centralized system.
The good news is that there are still ways to become more self-reliant and rely less on these big industries. These are six ways to improve your food security.
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