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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Making a killing from the food crisis
  • Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:11:46 -0600


In many countries, local farms have been swallowed up by corporate giants for
export to Europe, China, and U.S. In fact, the U.S. is now a net importer of
food. Local farm workers are turned into wage slaves that can't afford to buy
what they produce. This was planned by the IMF and World Bank. In other
places local farms are turned into ethanol crops for gas guzzling nations.
This pattern of the strong exploiting the weak has gone on since ancient
empires and economic colonialism is now in full swing. Globalization of food,
manufactures, and other commodities is not free trade; it's criminal abuse of
power. There are some in power who want wars and famines to decimate the
poorer populations and call them "useless eaters" (Kissinger), and tell us
that if you control oil you control nations, but if you control the food you
control the people. They know what they're doing. Big AG - cartels like ADM,
Monsanto, Cargill etc. has consolidated control over world food supplies,
seed, shipping, fertilizer and agricultural chemicals, and farm land. They
won't disappear and won't give up control no matter the cost. I don't know
the end result, but it won't be pretty, and the rich nations won't be
blameless. We can do our part as individuals and communities to be part of
the solution instead of contributing to the problem. That's what we do where
we're able to. I do need my coffee tho I know the middlemen are making big
money and the coffee plantation workers are in dire poverty. It's been said
that how and what we eat is a highly political act. Growing our own and
buying local is highly political. Being more self sufficient and not being
whipsawed by the economic news, we're less vulnerable to things beyond our
control.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 4/28/2008 at 11:41 AM activism98201@verizon.net wrote:

>As tragic as this all is, I believe that it is necessary. At first
>glance it may appear that the big folks are winning but it's really their
>death that's happening too. Big AG is doomed to fail. By lobbying that
>it "has lost touch with its most basic goal: that of feeding people" we're
>playing into their hands of obtaining yet further control over our food
>supplies.
>
>We shouldn't have our "representatives" in other parts of the world
>telling people what they should and shouldn't grow. And don't believe
>that the loss of exports is going to affect people's ability to feed
>themselves ("economic health"); dollars aren't necessary.
>
>It's the people's job of feeding themselves. If we let this hemorrhaging
>take place it'll result in more local control of food by the people
>themselves.
>
>
>-Mark Nagel
>Everett, WA
>
>
>=====================
>From: shashi.pkumar@wipro.com
>
>New from GRAIN
>28 April 2008
>http://www.grain.org/nfg/?id=565
>MAKING A KILLING FROM THE FOOD CRISIS

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