One more war crime: Death of Iraqi agriculture

Way back when esnl was a budding anthropology student, we learned about the history of agriculture, and the development of wheat cultivation and irrigation in the Fertile Crescent, the flood basins of the Nile, Tigris, and Euphrates rivers.

Now, thanks to the American military conquest of Iraq and the installation of an American Big Agra corporate executive as the region’s agricultural overlord, Iraqi farming has collapsed, and industrially farmed GMOs have replaced the small farms that once supplied all of the nation’s food needs.

A once self-sufficient land has been reduced to a food importer, relying on imports, mainly for the U.S., to replace the food it once grew for itself. So a war we were endlessly told was waged to bestow “freedom” has instead brought poverty and corporate servitude.

This clip is an excerpt from a documentary in progress from Richard G. Rowley, co-founder of Big Noise Films. We look forward to completed film.

H/T to Moussequetaire.