Solving the food crisis?
If you look at the G8 agenda, most of it is about food. There is a working lunch, a working dinner, another working lunch. And then there is the photo call. And then - that's it. How appropriate, then, that they have been talking about the global food crisis while munching away at their Japanese specialities. Sadly, what they have been saying has not made much sense. Bush, Berlusconi and others have been pushing for genetically engineered food as the solution to the food crisis. They have all pretended the liberalizing trade will lower food prices, which it will not. All it will do is drive poor farmers, especially in the developing world off their land. There has been some talk about how unsustainable biofuels are part of the problem - but no decision to, say, stop clearing land for biofuels. To add insult to injury, there is a lot of really overpackaged food all over the media centre. Another way to solve the food crisis? One overpackaged water melon piece at a time? These summits do sure make your head spin! You keep calm, though, and find out here why biodiversity and ecological farming is the real solution to the food crisis!
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Sometimes, I wondering why are not tryng to develop hybrid and H2 cars to save forests and our estomacs? And with this global food crisis, they have reach lunches and dinners, and whorst, I saw an article with an yacht of parties on sea, working with biofuel. Can you analyze this image between this sheep with bio fuel and peoples who die of hungry?
Posted by: Julian | July 11, 2008 1:21 AM