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1 " The global industrial food system holds an inherent contradiction. It is a major source of global warming pollution, and at the same time it is threatened by increasing climate chaos. This same food system currently leaves close to a billion people hungry, not for a lack of food production or " overpopulation" -as many textbooks tell students- but because the global market privileges the profits of multinational corporations over the human rights to food. "