ABSTRACT
This chapter shows how the proliferation of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) creates food insecurity by denying people’s access to food through food system centralization and how industrial agricultural policy to-date largely trivializes the dangers of GMO monocultures to crop diversity and biodiversity, thereby weakening food systems. All of these negative tendencies are made possible through private law and the protection it awards to those controlling the food system. The subsequent legal analysis identifies points of attack to improve upon the current food system using public law as a tool, i.e.that is, to pierce the shroud of private legal protection that creates the GMO-centered enabling system. On its flip -side, the legal analysis also highlights where the effectiveness of legal tools ends and opportunities for solutions to problems of food insecurity, trade imbalances, and other challenges begin. This chapter uses a perspective switchboard, where a shift in viewpoint uses a comparative legal examination of the facts
