Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Corporate Farming

What modern retail in the west has done is introduced food produce not just on an industrial scale but on an industrial quality too. That massive ten-pound pack of chicken breast at dirt cheap price...we really have no idea of its origins or vintage. Wait...we do have a rough idea. It was raised in a massive chicken farm owned by a corporate monopoly in methods and circumstances that will make you puke. Chicken (or cattle) that are cooped up in the dark, medicated, and force-fed continuously so that they attain maximum weight in the minimum time with minimum movement and metabolism.
That's how corporates maximize profit. In India, you still have to the option of seeking out the healthier free-range or home-grown chicken, fresh locally grown- or sourced vegetables and fruits. You could be saying goodbye to all that (or at least end up paying much much more) with the FDI fiesta. 
Chidanand Rajghatta in ToI: India's FDI retail saga: From Wal-Mart to Agarwal-Mart?
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Gen V.K Singh: FDI is not in our country’s interest but only for those who want to make money or are under pressure from outside to introduce it in our county

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