Manufacturing a Food Crisis
May 19th, 2008Key word: Manufacturing. That’s a good word to remember when considering most global crises.
Via: Nation Piece via Counter Currents:
Collapse of prices from trade liberalization and loss of control over seeds to biotech firms is part of a comprehensive problem, says global justice activist Vandana Shiva: “Under globalization, the farmer is losing her/his social, cultural, economic identity as a producer. A farmer is now a ‘consumer’ of costly seeds and costly chemicals sold by powerful global corporations through powerful landlords and money lenders locally.”
another look at why we have food shortages:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=M6NG8tmVDQ8
Rigorous reading, but well worth it.
From the article: “We did not think that the human costs of these programs could be so great, and the economic gains would be so slow in coming.”
Well that’s the problem. Corporatistas always looking for a profit in war ( the neocons in Iraq:oil; Afghanistan;drugs) NOT THINKING. oh my.
But when it comes to agriculture. Oh My Jesus the Lord.
I think this feller has some well deserved scrutiny coming his way. Robert B. Zoellick. What a dick.
http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/EXTABOUTUS/ORGANIZATION/EXTPRESIDENT2007/0,,contentMDK:21394208~menuPK:64822289~pagePK:64821878~piPK:64821912~theSitePK:3916065,00.html
As for Zoellick and Monsanto, you could spend weeks researching this feller’s corporatist ties while he holds a position that controls “FOOD.”
I’m confident that fellers like Zoellick will be subject to whatever the 21st century version of what the gallows pole will be.
I just have to wonder, how did the Bush Administration find these people? Was it a concerted search for “death to the people of the world?”
Sometimes, Scotty (as per Star Trek), it seems they made it so.
This is a pretty good article about how central planning by the world bank destroyed the agricultural economy of Honduras http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601170&refer=home&sid=aGxiawAqP0.w