The majority of my diet is still made up of groceries I bought from Makro. It takes me about 3 weeks to finish everything, so I've got that long until I start over.

In the meantime, I've started looking in my immediate neighborhood to see whats around. A cart comes around selling small baggies of vegetables every afternoon, for about 1 to 2 hours. Much of the time, this cart caters to migrant workers who buy small denominations. This particular guy doesn't grow them himself and doesn't know where they are grown. Next time, I'll dig a little more and see where he buys them. Maybe I can order a big chunk in case other friends want to go in on them together.

At some point, I needed evaporated milk for my coffee. I bought a can at Lotus. It's not manufactured by any company connected to CP, but later that night, a friend explained that supermarkets make the bulk of the profit from any third party products they sell. CP owns Tesco, Lotus, and Makro - which leaves Tops and Big C,...

Well....fuck

I’m a concerned citizen. I read the news, I see the hills near my house burning, cities like mine flooding, I read about my city going underwater in 20 years, but before I can make the concerned citizen calls or grow a forest - I need to eat.

And, I am a concerned citizen who lives in a food monopoly.

In Bangkok, Thailand, there is a 7/11, Tesco Lotus, and Makro for every newborn. Sometimes, you’ll even see two 7/11s right next to each other.

CP, a food and telecommunications conglomerate, owns it all.

“Analysts have said that concerns anti-trust concerns over CP’s bid were overblown as the anti-trust laws in Thailand are not that strict and that the penalty is a mere 0.5% of the deal which in this case could be around $50 million.”

On top of the food monopoly, CP is also guilty of extractive monocropping practices that dent farmer livelihoods for life.

During the lockdown, I’m buying in bulk at Makro - which means everything that has passed through my...