© Nina Firsova/Shutterstock.comThere’s more behind that vegan burger than it seems.
From ancient Rome, where Cura Annonae - the provision of bread to the citizens - was the central measure of good government, to 18th-century Britain, where the economist Adam Smith identified a link between wages and the price of corn, food has been at the centre of the economy. Politicians have long had their eye on food policy as a way to shape society.
That's why tariffs and other trade restrictions on imported food and grain were enforced in Britain between 1815 and 1846. These "corn laws" enhanced the profits and political power of the landowners, at the cost of raising food prices and hampering growth in other economic sectors.
Comment: As much as it may be disguised as a grassroots movement, the vegan putsch is a big business enterprise that cares little about the consequences on the population at large. It's a push for greater and greater dominance of the entire food system, an industrialization of food that will keep the plebes strong enough to work the machines, but sick enough to prevent rebellion. Resisting the putsch is fundamental to the health of the individual.