ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an analysis which suggests that in the discourse of alterglobalist activism there are three sub-discourses that criticise genetically modified (GM) crops: the sub-discourse of systematic change which often takes an opposition against global corporate business, the new leftism brought by the global peasant movement and the regionalism versus globalism sub-discourse based on cultural and culinary capitals. This sub-discourse is based on the fundamental assumption that the social order taking place today is built upon dominance of global capital, global industrial complexes and ideas 'inspired by neoliberal visions of nations as resource pools and open markets operating without restrictions'. The logic employed by both activists' works on globalisation is the same: that global capitalism does not work, as indicated by multiple crises. The concept of culinary capital references the Marxist idea of capital and Bordieu's explanation of how multiple forms of capital allow people to acquire status and power.
