Food Justice, a non-governmental organization with the aim of returning to citizens the right to healthy eating, has just launched the first Observatory of Food Corporations (OCA) in the State, a defense tool with which it aims to monitor bad practices of the corporations that control the food system.
As the NGO explained in a statement, in our country “there is no precedent for a similar self-defense tool” that tries to give names and surnames to those who pull the strings of what they consider “an exploitative, unfair and unsustainable system.”
The new Observatory of Food Corporations (OCA) will regularly publish reports based on scientific studies and journalistic investigations of companies and food products under suspicion. The conclusions will be shown in informational sheets or x-rays with the aim of achieving the greatest possible impact on social networks, and thus influence business decisions, legislation and public debate.
The first report, There is no water for so many mangoes, has focused on mangoes from Axarquía in Malaga. In it, Food Justice denounces that although the consumption of this fruit has tripled in the last five years, and could surpass that of avocado if the upward trend continues until 2030, the growing area suffers from unbearable water stress. Hence, criminal practices of illegal theft of water for irrigation are being carried out, an act that, according to what they say, already accumulates damage to the public hydraulic domain of 10 million euros without the government of the Spanish State stopping promoting it as a seasonal fruit. .
In addition to studying bad practices case by case, the Observatory of Food Corporations (OCA) will have a mailbox to leave complaints, comments or proposals. “We are looking for observers, anonymous or not, who can put us on the trail of warning signs from corporations and/or products that generate unjustified imbalances in the food system,” the organization explains.
