John | Pilger We Can't Keep Eating Like This

The title "" refers to the investigative work of the late Australian journalist John Pilger , specifically his 1975 documentary and accompanying reportage titled Zap! The Weapon is Food .

: Pilger highlighted how cutting food aid was used as a weapon to help dismantle the democratically elected Allende government in Chile . john pilger we can'T keep eaTing like This

Pilger’s reports on the global food system were so provocative that the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) in the UK took the unprecedented step of requiring a "disclaimer" before and after his films. Broadcasters had to explicitly state that Pilger was expressing a "personal view," a move intended to distance the network from his scathing critique of Western institutional power. Why the Message Persists The title "" refers to the investigative work

: In the 1970s, the U.S. General Accounting Office found that a majority of American food aid was directed toward "politically acceptable" regimes rather than the hungriest nations. Pilger’s reports on the global food system were

Though the original report is decades old, the sentiment "we can’t keep eating like this" remains relevant in modern discussions of Pilger's legacy: