Abstract
This text aims to explain the working logic of the complex agro-industrial system in the production of food commodities and how it relates with hunger in Capitalism. Methodologically, this is a bibliographical research. Throughout the text, we seek to demonstrate how capital appropriation in food takes place: since the occupation of soil to the ownership of lands, which necessarily involves the expulsion of peasant families from the countryside, we reconstruct the logic of this production chain with the branches of the complex agro-industrial food system. We seek to demonstrate that this form of food production, which values capital, may even produce food, but it will generate hunger, as it results in an agriculture with low diversity due to monocultures, in food devoid of nutrients, overloaded with chemicals that cause cancer and other illnesses and do not fulfill the function of feeding people. In short, a system which feeds on hunger.
Keywords:
Agro-industrial system; Hunger; Food production; Food commodity