Pharma Food

Is there biotech food on your plate? Foods derived from cell-cultures or made in a lab? How would you know if there was?

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Within the below transcript the bolded text is Hilda Labrada Gore and the regular text is Elze van Hamelen.

Is there biotech food on your plate? There are a number of technological so-called advances that are changing the food industry. How can you identify what’s happening and what can you do about it? This is Episode 467 and our guest is Elze van Hamelen. Elze is a researcher who writes for various news media publications such as De Andere Krant from the Netherlands, and the Solari Report. She covers what she calls pharma food, in essence, the takeover of our food supply as we know it by the tech industry that results in pseudo foods like lab-grown meat, precision fermentation, and milk without a cow.

Elze unveils what pharma food looks like, who’s backing it financially, and why. She explains why it’s problematic and toxic and how her extensive research compelled her to change her own diet. What is now called clean meat or guilt-free meat, because the term lab-grown was not appetizing to consumers is a mess that threatens our health and the future of small farms.

Elze explains what we can do to defend our food freedom and what to look out for when it comes to identifying these so-called novel foods in our food supply. Before we get into the conversation, did you know that the Weston A. Price Foundation has a YouTube channel? We do. On it, we posted a new free video of Sally Fallon Morell’s Signature Talk, Nourishing Traditional Diets, the key to vibrant health.

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Understanding Pharma Food

Welcome to the show, Elze.

Good to be here.

We are so passionate about getting your information out, particularly around this concept of pharma food. Can you talk to us about what that even means?

That was an interesting discovery. Catherine Austin Fitts of the Solari Report had asked me to investigate lab-grown meat. I thought, “I want to know how this is made.” I started researching it and what I found out is the way they are using to produce it is the same production method as being used to produce biotech pharmaceuticals.

Lab-grown meat is the process that they use to make it. Is it the same as what they do in the pharmaceutical industry?

They make biotech pharmaceuticals. There are basically two processes. One is cell cultures. Normally, if you take some cells, this starts with a weird research question. I thought they use cells and they proliferate it. They say they grow meat in a petri dish. I thought that was weird because if I go to the supermarket and buy a piece of meat, I cannot grow a cow out of it. How do you grow meat? I thought that was so odd.

I wanted to know how it was made so I found out they use cell cultures. Cell cultures should take a bio-op and you culture it in some substance that is blood or resembles blood and these cells proliferate. In biotech pharmaceuticals, they use these cell cultures to produce biotech medicines. The cell culture itself is the waste product.

I’m trying to wrap my head around this. Are you saying that the cell culture that they use in which they try to make the cells proliferate to make something that looks like meat, let’s say, or beef, they include it in the end product, when in the biotech pharmaceutical industry they discard it as waste?

Yes, biotech pharmaceuticals use these cell cultures to test their products on or to grow their products, grow viruses, or for vaccines but for the lab-grown meats, they proliferate these cells. They want to make more. That cell culture is the product they eventually make the meat from then there’s another process. I was reading this and I saw your face the way it looked but for me, it was the same thing. You read this and you think, “No, this cannot be real.” You read it three times over because it’s so insane.

It is. Tell me about the other process.

This is called precision fermentation. In some ways, it’s more concerning because it’s already in the markets. People don’t know that they’re eating it. If you’re eating dairy products, they say, “This is milk without cow. This is butter without animals.” You’re probably eating precision fermented products. The process in the ‘80s, they found out how to make a produce human insulin that’s very similar to human insulin. What they did is they took E. coli bacteria and they inserted the gene, the human gene that codes for human insulin, then they fermented these bacteria, the genetically modified bacteria. These bacteria then produce insulin. That’s a biotech pharmaceutical process that’s been on the market for decades.

It’s insulin that is similar to what the body produces but it’s been synthetically produced.

Yes, exactly. Now, this same product production process, they believe that it can replace most materials and foods. A lot of the foods in the supply chain. In 2020, McKinsey had a forecast that they call the biotech revolution or the bio revolution. They said, “We can make so many materials in this way. We can make wood fibers, for example, but also a lot of foods.” What happens with food is that they insert the gene that codes for some substance that is in cow milk.

These bacteria start to ferment and they will produce a substance of the cow milk because the cow milk itself is a complex product so they cannot produce regular complex milk. They will produce something. It’s called HMO, but I forget what it stands for. It’s a human milk component and they put this in baby food.

Again, I’m reacting because, for lack of a better word, sneaky. It’s sneaky because we don’t expect these things to enter into the food supply. I suppose because it’s recent that some of this technology has developed that it’s coming in and we’re not aware of it.

You asked me your first question, why pharma food? I was reading about all these technologies. I was trying to understand how it works then I thought, “No, it’s not lab-grown. These are pharmaceutical production processes. This is pharma food.” That was my line of reasoning. That’s how I coined the term.

I’m so glad you did because so many folks reading this, the readers are people who are well-informed and they’re saying no to some of the synthetic meats and the pseudo foods that are out there. For example, we can’t wrap our minds around almond milk exactly because you can’t milk an almond but that’s another story altogether. We avoid these ultra-processed foods but the pharma food that you’re describing is a food that is, again, surprisingly in our food supply already and we’re not aware of it.

Precision Fermented Meat

The first product of lab-grown meat had so many difficulties in the production process that one was approved in Singapore, but it’s not in the market anymore, apparently. I just read this. In the US, the FDA has approved one type of lab-grown meat, but I believe the company is having so many issues that it’s not on the market already. I have to read the report. You understand that there are so many difficulties. Not just technical. You don’t have to be too concerned that the market will be flooded with this anytime soon. We’ll be more concerned with not just the plant-based and the soy burgers, but what’s the name of Bill Gates’s?

Impossible meat?

Yes, because that’s made with the precision-fermented stuff.

Elze, correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe there is now chicken on the market. At least I’ve heard that it’s been approved for supermarket shelves or the refrigerated section, that looks like chicken. It’s gone through the same process and unless someone reads the fine print. I’m not sure what legally is required there, they might not realize that it’s a bioengineered or biotech-driven food product.

Also, one type of lab-grown meat has been approved, but as far as I know, it’s not being sold yet. The last time I looked, but precision fermented foods, there were a lot on the market already. In the EU, it’s very tricky. What do they say? “We have like this strict GMO regulation,” but with precision fermentation, they say, “The actual product is not genetically modified, it’s the bacteria.” The bacteria are processing agents. It’s not approved under the GMO regulation, but it’s approved under the novel food legislation that nobody knows about. Novel food is anything that people don’t recognize as food before 1997. It’s all this weird synthetic stuff, even nanomaterials.

Unfamiliar Terms

The thing is, even the term precision fermentation sounds like a good thing. Our foundation is all about fermented foods. It’s an ancient way of preserving and making more bioavailable than nutrients and food but this is something different.

You see something very tricky here. You see that they’re searching for the words to make something that’s very technological to make it sound natural. First, it was lab-grown meats. People don’t like the term, then it was clean meat, then in the Netherlands cellular agriculture. Who can be against agriculture? With fermentation, you drink wine. Wine is fermented. As you said, a lot of fermented foods are very healthy. You see that they’re testing out these types of words or it’s a culture. Yogurt is a culture. What’s wrong with a culture? It’s a cell culture. They are trying to find these words that make it sound normal for us.

I can see that and that’s all the marketing machine.

That’s interesting too, because with all this wording. It’s these tech venture capital businesses that invest in this. These people are technocrats. They like certain types of wording and that gets them excited to put money into this. The type of wording that the consumer likes is very different. That’s very clear.

Main Drivers Of Pharma Food

I was going to ask you and I do want to ask, who is behind this? The tech world is about it because its technological advances. I imagine there are some environmentalists who feel like this is better for the planet, and others who feel like it’s better for our health. Who are some of the main drivers since you’ve done some of the research on this, Elze?

What you see is that there’s a lot of money behind it like billions of dollars, which is very odd because this is not a market demand. The consumer is not interested in it and a lot of money is pouring in it. Why this is weird too is that when you think about the tech firm, they can have a hockey stick curve. Once a lot of people sign up for an app and it harvests a lot of data, then you can make a lot of money.

If you sell a product, you can never have this growth curve. You have a lot of capital investment so it doesn’t make sense why they invest this much money in it. The other line of reasoning is the policy reasoning, where they say at the UN level, “There’s a climate crisis, that’s what we need to solve. For the climate crisis, we need to change agriculture. We needed like a radical overall of traditional.”

It’s not traditional agriculture. They say it’s industrial agriculture. We agreed that, but the way they do it is they want to get farmers out of business. They say, “If we change agriculture, people need to change their diets. They need to change their protein consumption.” Meat is no longer protein and other changing words.

People are making choices ostensibly for a better world. This hasn’t been studied. We don’t know how people would thrive or start to decline on these kinds of pseudo foods.

If you look at how this is made, it’s toxic. It’s very artificial. They say, “There’s a lot of antibiotic resistance. This is clean meat.” If you look at the amount of disinfectants they need to keep a cell culture clean so that it won’t become a bacterial culture. These cells need to grow and they use something for that, which is fetal bovine serum, which is blood from cow fetuses.

Many would claim that there is a lot of antibiotic resistance in lab-grown meat. However, it requires a high amount of disinfectants so that it won’t become a bacteria culture. 

It doesn’t sound appetizing.

It’s like that’s a problem for the “clean” meat, so they need a synthetic alternative. These synthetic alternatives are, again, genetically modified, they’re hormones and growth factors. There’s all kinds of weird stuff in it. If you have the cells–like a piece of “meat” in your body–it’s part of a lot of tissue and you have your veins and your blood drains.

How do you pull garbage out of your cells? It becomes clean but with the regular cell culture, if you grow it, there is no system to remove the waste products out of the cells. There’s a necessity in there. They need to add all this stuff to make this stuff grow. You need to grow it also in a structure, which is often nanomaterials that are again usually not edible. I even read one patent. It had a nylon that would disintegrate on your tongue. I thought, “Oh my God.”

Animals And Plants

Elze, I just want to say, fetal bovine serum. Even though I was like, “That sounds strange,” but it’s natural. It’s something from the cow and its offspring. It’s some blood and some stuff that’s good but vegetarians or vegans or others would say, “We need to make something synthetic that’s similar.” This is where we get into trouble when we’re trying to improve upon what nature has to offer us. The case in point is this disintegrating nylon idea.

Even the fetal bovine. Should you eat a cow fetus like a regular adult cow? They pump this blood from a living fetus. This is interesting. After studying all this, it made me eat meat again after being vegetarian for many years. I came to the point where I thought, “This is all so weird and artificial.” If I can speak to a farmer, that takes care of his animals well and I know he’s normal. He doesn’t do weird stuff to his food. There’s a cycle of life and death. Death is part of it. There’s a lot of meat-eating in nature. I thought, “I like that a lot better than all this insane, unnatural, non-food.”

Elze, do you mean to say that before you dived into this, you thought it was healthier? Healthier for you and maybe healthier for the planet to avoid meat altogether.

I was a vegetarian for a long time. Not purely for the environment. That was part of the story that I bought, but also because I thought, “I don’t know if I can kill an animal, so why should I eat it?” I came to a point where I saw that so many unnatural things were happening and I thought I tried to eat everything not processed, clean, and not with the pesticides. It seemed more natural for me to start.

All the insanity with the food, there was part of it that I thought just back to basics, normal farming and also realizing because that’s part of the story. In the Netherlands, the EU has asked all the member states to develop a protein strategy. The farmers need to grow more of their proteins on their land. People need to eat less meat and more plant-based proteins. They basically want to take the animals out of the land. What they don’t tell all the environmentalists of which I was one before, but is that regular vegetables. They won’t grow without the manure.

A lot of land is not suitable for growing vegetables. What is the most perfect way is that you have cows or other cattle on it. They graze the land and plow it a bit. You get a very good cycle of biodiversity. Land and animals go together. You cannot separate them. They try to replace animals and meat with all this plant-based stuff and weird synthetic stuff. It doesn’t add up in any way. The land and nature will become very unhealthy and people as well.

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Knowing Your Farmer

We’ve had some amazing conversations on this show including with Allan Savory, who said we need to harness the hooves. In other words, the animals do exactly as you said. They fertilize the land. They disturb it with their hooves and so forth, and they make it healthier than if we left it alone. You can’t have a whole bunch of carrots if you don’t have those animals around. Now, I want to go back to something you said earlier.

Apparently, this pharma food is coming at us from a lot of different directions. What are some of the terms we should look out for when we are shopping or that might be on the horizon? You said some things have been approved and haven’t shown up yet at the grocery store. How can we be on the lookout for these pharma foods? What are some of the labels they’re carrying?

I’m thinking about the US labels. Officially, they’re bioengineered labels, but they made the labeling process so cumbersome. The different rules apply in different cases. You don’t know. What I would recommend if you want to have good fresh food, find a direct link to a farmer. Buy directly from a farmer or find an intermediary. In the Netherlands, we have people who buy from the local farmers in the region. You can order online and it will bring your groceries one time a week.

If you want to have good, fresh food, buy directly from a farmer.

That can be a nice startup too. If you are in the city and you think, “I don’t have something nearby.” That can be a great opportunity but if you look at all the ways that they’re basically adulterating our food. In the EU, they also approved insects. They’re allowed to use it as ingredients, cupcakes, or breads. It’s an ingredient list, but who looks at that? Who knows? There’s not a large bug on the package.

They know that wouldn’t be good for marketing. It reminds me, I was with some friends in Florida. I bought some sourdough bread. It looked like it was all the good things. It didn’t have vinegar as an ingredient. I thought, “This has been fermented.” I was very excited. After I served it to my friends, unfortunately, I saw in very tiny print at the bottom, “This product includes bioengineered ingredients.” I was shocked because there was no big label like you’re saying. No bug but there was also nothing else that indicated to me that this product had something that had been driven in a lab.

They’re doing so much weird stuff with our food. You can try to learn about all the labels. In the US, it’s great that you have a non-GMO project. That’s a little bit more expensive, but they are on top of what are the GMOs about the precision fermentation. That’s a GMO for them because we are dependent on the EU legislation. People are eating these GMOs and they think, “We’re protected against this.” They have no idea.

The non-GMO project is their own labeling scheme. That will be a good one because you know it has gone through a good vetting process there. For me, the best thing is not just the labels, but knowing a farmer. Speak to your farmer and know how they’re taking care of the land and how they deal with their animals. Even in the Netherlands, if you have organic cows, they still can have the mRNA vaccinations. You have to talk to your farmer to know how they think about what they do.

We are big fans of that. All around the world, Elze, we have chapter leaders, and their only job as volunteers is to help people find their local sources of real food. Even then, the foundation is a small nonprofit. We can’t go through every farm, so your advice is perfect for people to go and find out if the farmers are using vaccination on any level and if they are injecting them with mRNA.

Cell Culturing Process

These are things that we have to be bold enough to ask and hopefully, the farmer will be transparent enough to give us some answers. I want to back up for one moment to this. You’re talking about this cell culturing process. We should not think and tell me if you think this is true or not. This cell culturing process is foreign to the pharmaceutical industry because I believe they use human fetal cell cultures in vaccinations. Is that right?

A lot of the vaccinations. There are a couple of pro-life organizations in the US that have studied this and published about it. That’s described in the Solari Reports, pharma foods. It has all the references but sometimes, the vaccines are grown on these cultures, and sometimes they’re tested on them. That’s very common. These cell lines have been made from human fetuses, then they manipulate it in a way that it keeps on proliferating and these are still in use.

Global Policies

It’s so alarming. We will put a link so that people can find this particular Solari Report and other resources that this wonderful organization puts out led by Catherine Austin Fitts. Now, I want to ask you, you mentioned a little bit earlier about the impetus behind some of these movements. Are there global policies in place that support this pharma-food agenda?

As I mentioned, it’s the policy pyramid. They say we need this for the climate, and that’s why you have the farming policies. That’s why they’re pushing synthetic food. You have these venture capitalists but it was not getting off the ground. The big food corporations like even Cargill. They have their own alternative protein or GBS. Their own alternative protein departments.

A lot of countries started because they said, “We need an ecosystem to get this off the ground.” They organized these consortia to combine the startups with the corporations and the universities. They start this with government money to bring these parties together to get this off the ground. You see investment. You have the ESG ratings. It’s called environment social governance rating. Basically, they say, “Regular traditional agriculture uses too much land. It uses too much water, pesticides, and antibiotics. We need to quit this. These synthetic methods is clean so you get a better ESG score, but that’s a way to shift the investments.

It boggles my mind as a person who is so focused on natural foods and natural ways. I saw a clip of Bill Gates celebrating some of this biotech or bioengineered food. He said, “All of this food has been made without photosynthesis.” The people in the room practically stood up and cheered. I thought, “Is that a good idea?”

I don’t think so.

Message To Naysayers

I don’t think so either, but what do you say, Elze, to the person who says, “You’re behind the times. You want to hold on to how things were a hundred years ago. Don’t you see that this is the way to feed the world and the way of the future?” What would you say to that naysayer?

The way to feed the world is the way we fed the world in the last couple of thousand years. We as humans are part of the environment of nature. We work best if we work together with the Earth and with the animals. That’s how we fed the world all the time and the experiment because it is an experiment of industrial agriculture.

It’s pretty recent. It started after World War II and it has failed. It has destroyed the soil. It’s bad for animal health. Look at our health. You sometimes see posts of these pictures of people on a beach in the ‘60s and people on a beach now, obese and sick. This experiment with artificial food that they’re now pushing even further ahead. It has already failed. It’s very clear that it has failed.

There’s an important issue of the freedom to choose the food you eat. If you look at all the directions of the policies, it’s toward getting people off the land. The land and the capacity for food production is in the hands of these big corporations that have no allegiance to the people. You have no overview of the oversight of food safety anymore. There also should be like a free choice, like, do you want to eat that synthetic stuff? Fine, but we want to do it the way it’s been done all this time and it’s been proven.

Advocating For Better Food

I’m taking notes because that’s beautiful. We are about food freedom here. That makes a lot of sense to realize what freedoms may be taken away even subtly. We need to be on our toes. One question I want to ask you is, again, the Western A. Price Foundation is about education, research, and activism. How can we be activists advocating for food freedom in this realm?

The most important thing is to vote with your dollars. Vote with your pocketbooks. If you’re buying your food at the supermarket, you’re financing the people who are poisoning you. Buy from your farmer or buy from the local people from an intermediary, but try to boycott the supermarket. That’s very important. It’s very basic.

If you still have money to invest, invest in your farmers. I thought we should get some farmers’ funds, farmers’ investment funds that buy up the land from farmers who are struggling. Especially if it’s a piece of industrial agricultural land and to have a real long-term plan to make it viable again and have some smaller farmers on it. It should be like a transition thing. That’s an investor part.

If you are buying food at the supermarket, you are financing people who are poisoning your food. Boycott them and invest in farmers instead.

There is the political part. I’m in Europe, so I’m less aware of the situation in the US. The current situation is created by policy and it can be changed by policy again. You can also advocate for better policies, but here, I would also look at the website of Catherine Austin Fitts, Solari Report, because she’s done a lot of work on this. You can find a lot of good information on the Solari website.

Growing Meat In Space

Thank you so much for that. Now, I want to back up as we start to wrap up, and I want to ask you, in your investigation, what surprised you the most, Elze, as you were digging into this whole pharma food movement?

That’s a difficult question because I dropped from one amazement to the next, even shaking my head like, “This is not possible.” The weirdest thing was, lab-grown meat, like the first project was a NASA project to investigate if they could grow meat in space. You cannot take a herd of cows on your spaceship. For a long time, a couple of researchers worldwide were trying to make something out of this, but it wouldn’t get off the ground.

The movement was basically kickstarted by this NGO, New Harvest, which was led by Jason Matheny. They organized a conference where they secured funding for these researchers. They connected the researchers because of this New Harvest work. it started to become a movement. If you look at the resume of Jason Matheny who started this, he has degrees from Johns Hopkins University.

He did his PhD with the Melinda Gates Foundation. He has a career at DARPA and IARPA. I don’t know if it’s still the case, he’s the CEO of the RAND Corporation. If you look at that list, I thought, “Why would creating a market for this product be a priority for intelligence?” If you look at this resume, that’s an intelligence operation, but why would they want it to kickstart lab-grown meat?

That’s a great question. What do you suspect if we dare go there?

It’s not just lab-grown meat. Also precision fermentation and vertical farming. These are all cases where you have to grow the food indoors. This was a pivotal moment in my research. I was reading all this insane stuff. I thought, “This is so insane. It cannot be possible.” At some point, I thought, “Under what conditions would this be rational?” I remembered that the same Jason Matheny also worked at the Future of Humanity Studies at Oxford University.

He’s written this very long article about possible cataclysms that could wipe out humanity. He said, “There are two ways basically that if there’s a cataclysm that would danger the earth. There are two ways that you can survive that. One is to build underground bunkers. The other one is to become a multi-planetary civilization.” That’s his article. I thought over back at NASA.

I also thought, “If you believe this, then you start thinking, if there are circumstances where I cannot grow food outdoors because there’s a nuclear holocaust or a Maunder Minimum or comet hits the earth. You have to grow everything in underground bunkers.” I thought, “I can understand that you would start to invest in processes and also have these insane investment streams for products.

The business case doesn’t make sense. If you think that it’s about survival, then I could understand it. In the report, I go into another, but it’s basically scenarios because I thought, “I don’t have the answer, but the official story is not right.” What is the real story? I don’t know, but I have a couple of ideas. We presented that in the Solari Report.

What you’ve revealed already helps us start to connect the dots. I’ve often wondered in the United States, Bill Gates is one of the largest landowners now. I’ve wondered why is he buying up the land. Maybe he wants to control what’s grown on it and make sure it’s more vegetables and fewer animals. Is that right? Was there anything that you’ve understood about that situation in your research?

That’s the other report. That’s about the farmers and fishermen.

We’ll get to that one next time.

There’s an enormous land grab going on.

Making Better Choices

This is so fascinating. I have to say, Elze, I understand now why when people hear you or read these reports, they get scared. You’ve told me that your objective is not for people to be afraid, but to be empowered.

I often do deep dives and people will respond to me sometimes like, “I can’t read it anymore because it scares me. I just want to live my life. How can you do this? Are you not becoming depressed?” I thought, “No.” All this stuff is going on as we speak. They’re herding us into a corner. If you don’t see it, it will happen and it will happen to you. You don’t have any choice or agency. If you start looking and put the pieces of the puzzle together, then you can make much more informed choices. These choices can save you.

I do believe that this type of knowledge, if you hear it for the first time and for myself, also sometimes I hear pieces or read things and you’re shocked. You have to process your emotions, but in the end, it’s happening. It’s not something new. Now you see it and you know, but you can choose. It’s always better to have a choice. That’s empowerment.

It’s like Sally says and others do, too, that when you know and have the right tools at your hand, as you said the farmer nearby. Maybe you’re growing some of your food. You’re living the life as you choose to. There will be a sense in which you will not only survive but thrive. She calls it survival of the wise and it will happen.

Filtering Water

This information that you’re bringing to the fore is helpful for us to be empowered in a profound way. Now, as we come near the end of the conversation, Elze, I want to ask you, and this is a question I always pose at the end here. If they could only do one thing to improve their health, what would you recommend that they do?

The one thing already said is to buy from your farmer. The other one, especially in the US, is to filter your water because there’s a lot of lead piping and other stuff in your water. The water next to your food is one of the most important things that you ingest. There are a couple of other things for us, but I would start with that. Your food and water, then you’re long way a ahead.

That’s right. Thank you so much. This has been an amazing conversation. I can’t wait till next time when we touch on agribusiness and what’s happening in that field. Thank you again, Elze.

You’re very welcome. Thank you for the invitation, Hilda.

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Our guest was Elze van Hamelen. You can visit her website VanHamelen.eu to learn more. I am Hilda Labrada Gore, the host and producer of this show for the Weston A. Price Foundation. You can find me at HolisticHilda.com. Mipmask said this, “Sugar, this was a great, short, and informative show.” She’s referring to Episode 461 entitled How Sugar Messes With Your Health. “I already knew these things, but the review is a huge reminder that the level of sugar we consume is not normal or good for us in any way, shape, or form. I appreciate the refresher and reminder. I’ll get back on the low-sugar course. Great timing for this show as big holidays are over and many are wondering why they feel so bad and why everyone is so sick around them.”

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About Elze van Hamelen

Elze is a former corporate consultant turned researcher, who writes for various new media publications, on topics such as food, agriculture, people, power and empowerment, surveillance, technocracy and governance. To stay connected to people, and help them turn knowledge into action, she loves sharing her discoveries in workshops and lectures.

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