This is a provocative thought: The spread of western cultures can be compared to the spread of monocultures in agriculture where imported, hybridized fertilizer dependent seeds, produced at a profit for multinational corporations, crowd out indigenous local varieties.

This is an idea that I have run into in Environmental Anthropology and would like to explore further in the context of Globalization and its effects on identity [and food].

Globalization, the global spread of Anglo-American knowledge, values, and practices, rather than indigenous knowledge and wisdom, drastically influences our ideas about food and health. Globalization like colonization is disempowering most to those removed from western knowledges causing UNESCO to warn that the mass export of the cultural practices of the industrialized world including languages, entertainment, food, and unsustainable consumerism contributes to a sense of dispossession and loss of identity among those who are exposed to it.