Sickening Profits exposes the global food system as a profit-driven mechanism that prioritises corporate wealth over human need, systematically poisoning people through ultra-processed foods and agrochemicals. Firms like BlackRock invest in unhealthy food and big pharma that manages food-related diseases and conditions.
The connection between return on investment and food production is intricately linked, creating a system that often leaves many ordinary people reliant (pensions, savings) on a ‘toxic’ food system. The book challenges ecomodernist narratives and concludes with a discussion on broader geopolitical aspects of food and agriculture in a ‘post-covid’ world characterised by food inflation, hardship and multi-trillion-dollar global debt.
