Trillions, not Billions

[Coronavirus – XX]

Here are a couple facts:

First, the food economy in the United States is a whopping 1.2 trillion dollars. The pharmaceutical economy, however, is 3.7 trillion dollars. Something’s wrong there.

Second, Bayer (the pharmaceutical company) owns Monsanto (the company that makes the famous Roundup). Monsanto owns 80% of seed patents (the biological rights to the foundation of all of agricultural). In other words, a pharmaceutical company owns (or at least legally controls) over three-quarters of the food system. Something’s wrong there.

Here’s my question, which is only loosely about the Coronavirus:

Have we built systems that build healthy people, steward land, and invest in a life-giving future, or have we built systems that prioritize something else?

People of faith, people with deep hearts and yearning souls, people of conviction . . . people like us are unwilling to continue in ways like this.