Venting a little about current state of brazillian politics regarding food
Things are getting better-ish in a lot of ways. Unemployment is 6.4%, the lowest since 2012 (6.2%, our lowest record so far).
Having a centre-left executive government is ok after taking so many hits since 2015. But there’s a ton of stuff wrong. 4 year terms are simply not enough to come up with a politcal long term plan.
What boggles me is that Brazil is one of the largest food exporters, but ourselves just eat the leftovers. And it comes at a high price.
Coffee for an example has doubled in price since 2023. That makes it like 30 brazillian v-bucks for a 500g pack. It’s bonkers.
The coffee we drink is the coffee that we can’t sell abroad because it’s too burnt or contains too much impurities (large % of dirt, rocks, twigs, bugs, mice fur etc). The solution the industry found to solve this problem? Sell an even worse garbage, using an identical looking package as “drink mixture - coffee flavor” for the price people’d assume it’s regular coffee. And that happens for other stuff like dairy, it’s disgusting.
That’s what happens when there was no agrarian reform in the past. Now we have an agricultural elite that burn our forests, exile workers from the fields and starve the population.
They are deeply rooted on the legislative power. They’re even meaning to launch a Country-music artist for president in 2026. Not only they have a lot of power but they also mess with the nation biodiversity and enviroment because of these monocultures/large pastures.
Aside from that, Brazil’s National Bank of Economic and Social Development finance all that stuff and the government gives tax exemption for the ultraprocessed food industry. Coca-cola alone was like, a billion dollars exempted over the past few years, followed by Nestlé.
The family agriculture political movements are the only cultivating work-force that respects the workers, the enviroment and the food itself by going full organic and dividing food equaly at a reasonable price. Unfortunately, they’ve been painted by the media as thieves/crooks/criminals for the last 50 years.
I see no way out of this.
Food is war, food is imperialism.
