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cord-289082-rr2y4vuc	Hendrickson, Mary K.	Covid lays bare the brittleness of a concentrated and consolidated food system	2020-05-12		.txt	text/plain	831	67	60	In a for-profit system, the boards and management of these companies have more power to decide what, where and how food is produced, who is doing the work, and even who gets to eat it than do farmers, workers, eaters or communities. In this for-profit system, food is simultaneously made cheap through the exploitation of nature, farmers and workers while being too expensive for poor households around the world. Covid-19 exposes the faults of concentrated power in food systems in coping with other slowermoving ecological disasters like soil degradation, decline in water quality and quantity and weather calamities due to climate change (Hendrickson et al. 5 See https ://www.wfp.org/news/covid -19-will-doubl e-numbe r-peopl e-facin g-food-crise s-unles s-swift -actio n-taken . To do that we must pursue worker rights, animal welfare, farmer viability and ecological sustainability simultaneously because they are all tied together. Power, Food and Agriculture: Implications for Farmers, Consumers and Communities	./cache/cord-289082-rr2y4vuc.txt	./txt/cord-289082-rr2y4vuc.txt