Because when I say these companies co-opted the power of billions of ordinary people, I’m talking about you and me. Ordinary people who had grandparents or great-grandparents who grew a good portion of their own food are now somehow convinced that growing food is “a lot of work” or “too expensive.”

Today, fewer than 200 cultivated plants contribute in a substantial manner to food production worldwide. Of these 200 food crops, only nine represent 66% of the total agricultural production.