The shelves are full, but choice is an illusion. A handful of supermarket giants dominate the supply chain, setting prices that squeeze farmers at one end and families at the other. Local producers disappear, diversity shrinks, and food becomes just another pipeline for profit.
Prices rise not from scarcity, but from design — an architecture of control. Families cut meals, stretch budgets, while supermarkets post record profits. Hunger itself becomes an opportunity.
This isn’t just market failure; it’s by design. Food insecurity is manufactured to keep households compliant and corporations fattened.
Meanwhile, politicians look the other way, afraid to upset the duopoly. Food security is reduced to a slogan, while genuine resilience — local markets, community co-ops, fair farmgate prices — is starved of support.
The crisis machine thrives here too: keep people anxious about the cost of eating, and they’ll accept any “solution” offered by the very corporations causing the pain.
Scarcity is once again the strategy. Abundance is possible, but forbidden.
The Crisis Machine: It’s by design.