Food Security?

So while we got a conflagratgion in Israel an' folks is distracted wif war and rumors of war and fussin' and fumin' over terrorism and its pursuits, another silent war is being planned. A planetary food fight.

Been goin' on a bit...in obscure journals that ask,

"What kind of impact do you think the diplomatic build-up and disagreement over the war with Iraq will have on transatlantic food policy and food relations over the next few months?"

Or, "How will the accession of ten countries into E.U. contribute to global food wars?"

Back in 1996 the Yoo-nited nations gathered in Rome to produce their Rome Declaration on World Food Security. Uh-huh. The statemets in this doc prohibit use of starvation as a wea[pon against a people--Stalin being a ready-reference point. Then in Sept 2001 the UN's Food Summit (ter plan the use of food the world over) was cancelled due to the unfortunate skittishness of diplomats after 9-11. And prerhaps because the Romans did not want the UN in their city since hundreds of thousdands of protestors were set to derail the Summit---as they did previous summits. So the program festered and now we have a more insidious program than ever--crafted out of the public eye.

Of course, the premise is that everybody should git a plate o' supper every night...who would argue wif' that?

What we'uns need ter look at is HOW this utopian ideal will come about...uh huh--ya knows how. Food and water will soon enough be declared the "right" of the "people of the earth" and thus no one, no nation will have the right to the water in its borders or the food its people grow--no siree, pets, the UN is aimin' to "help" you be "fair" and "secure" by takin' on planetary food security and distribution--jes' think of it as a soviet style five year plan for a the earth's shiny new planned economy--but it will be permanent --not five years. Add to this is ecological adventures--in China this March they "discovered" that "reclaimaing" farmer's land for new forestation projects ovet the last decade meant a loss of 6 percent of arable land. So pets, we got us a fight over ecology for mother earth and food foor folks. Natcherly, all these here tensions create food shortages. Enter UN.

Oh they wrap it in fine high--toned rhetoric, like dissin' Mayanmar (Burma) fer starvin 300k victims of political oppression....but each time "food security" is invoked, why looky, the food police insist that conditions are such in much of the world that food police should control world food to "insure" fair distribution.

But then, who is gonna hold UN accountable--as when their own troops used the food raised by donor nations to control the masses in the world's hot spots? The scandal was so bad that the UN's own report suggested that HQ make issue reprimmands. Yep...the same old question, sweet puddin'--who is goin' ter guard the guardians??

Under the rubrics of "food ethics" and "sustainability" our food sources are also bein' narrowed--the beast of the story is Monsanto and its Terminator Technology --a diabolical creation that is beyond Frankenfoods to killer of good foods..genetically modified rice, beans and cotton introduced into poor nations first cause this stuff is deadly!

Oh yeah, chile, never would a thought it, but the seeds of the terminator species cross pollenate wif' yore own garden seeds--mebbe some squash seeds yore grandday gave ya...but the breeze blows over the seeds from Monsanto's killer seeds and thas' jes' what happens-it kills the seeds of yore own plant--so you lose the ability ter grow yer own. (www.etcgroup.org) And farmers will be sold these seeds--but they cain't regrow em' wifout buying new seed eah season--meaning of course that the price of seed will dwarf oil. 70 bucks per pound for wheat seed--or worse, make you a tennant farmer on yore own land.

This is but one misuse of science and gene technology ---hate ter think of what we doan even know is in them laboratory vials.

Agri-giants is plum thrilled of course, talk about control of the market! Worried about oil? Ain't seen nuthin', mah chicks, like what's a'commin' in the food fight of the planet.

In 2003 the world's 1st Global Forum on Sustainable Development was in gay Paree (PAris) whar ethicists, bio-diversity experts ans sustainability gurus asked each other if it would be ethical to prohibit the use of the "world's land" for "inefficient" food production methods?

Did'ja git that folks? The "world's lands" not your land, mah land or the land of our birth...oh no, but all land is now coopted ter feed the "world" and the land cain't be used, ya see, fer no stoopid non-terminator foods or fer traditional methods of agriculture--no sir-ree.

Or the "Ecology without Frontiers" folks...yep, another land-grab. So in the name of ecology yore ability to grow an orange tree is usurped, and youse a step closer to state-managed hunger.

Looky....along wif bullets, better store up some seeds of old fashioned sort(see www.seedsavers.org or www.primalseeds.org).