Merinder Teller

With restrictive Covid policies reshaping everything from farmland ownership to meat processing to restaurant eating to food costs and availability, it is clear that critical battle lines are being redrawn. And one of the most disturbing new battlefronts has to do with the most age-old of rights, one that Maine voters just took the precaution of enshrining in their Constitution: the “natural, inherent, and unalienable right to food, including. . . the right to grow, raise, harvest, produce and consume the food of [one’s] own choosing.”

Although food freedom has been under attack for a long time (as Weston A. Price Foundation members and regenerative farmers like Joel Salatin know only too well9), it is becoming increasingly evident that the perpetrators include a wider range of players than just the regulatory bullies at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

… Spearheading the synthetic biology coup is a host of players: big ag, big tech, medicine/ pharma, the military, Wall Street and others.