Seed Oils, the CIA, and the Metabolic Shitshow
Cheap food holds capitalism together. But to get it, we’ve had to cheapen almost everything on the planet: the work of women, nature and colonies.
We’ve made strange new ecologies all over the world, and now we’re living in the metabolic shitshow.
How will the ruling class keep control?
On this week’s Do Your Own Research, Jason Moore tells Richard Hames why the end of cheap nature means the rise of the security state.
Do Your Own Research is a new show about the systems that make the modern world possible.
- Published 28 February 2026
