While the top 0.01% of the richest people on the planet live in unconscionable opulence and glamour, all around them are the rest of the world living under the constant stress of job insecurity and homelessness. Even middle-class families today struggle to keep themselves out of debt in a classical capitalist economy that is designed to return all monies to the top 0.01%. Everyone knows that in Vegas, the house always wins, and Wall Street makes Vegas look like child’s play, as the rich accumulate trillions of dollars and hide them in offshore accounts. While the rich continue to compound their riches daily, the rest of the world strains under a world gone mad with materialism. The folks at the top are predators. They are snapping beasts hell-bent on gobbling up the world’s resources for profit and using those at the bottom to build their i-gadgets and other gewgaws under primitive, slave-wage conditions. They are pillaging and plundering just as the old armies of Rome and Genghis Khan did, and posting military bases around the world to insure that any rebellion to this predation is quelled. While they continue with their neoliberal programs of oppressive trade laws and austerity measures, the earth and its inhabitants continue to suffer. The current debate on the industrialized, genetically modified agribusiness verses organic is emblematic of this. The Agribusiness community led by people like Bill Gates wants us to believe that a world of 7 billion people and growing cannot be fed without chemical fertilizers and GMO’s. There is one problem with this philosophy: Millions of people continue to starve to death. For some time now, farmers around the world have discovered that these methods don’t work. They destroy the soil and produce unhealthy, inferior food. What’s not reported by the mainstream media is the worldwide movement called “agroecological,” which has shown to outperform pesticide use and GMO’s, as well as produce healthier and better tasting crops. One example is in Malawi, where a return to organic methods has led to a tripling of maize fields. Agroecological programs have shown results in other developing countries as well, with an average increase in food production of 116% in African projects. This contradicts Bill Gates claim that Africa needs a “new green revolution”, in reference to his philanthropic efforts to introduce Monsanto Frankenfoods in order to feed the world. The problem with this philosophy is that this “green revolution” is not working, especially in places where it is most experimented with, such as India, where millions are starving while Monsanto and Bill Gates get richer. Thousands of experiments around the world are showing that climate smart, organic food production is superior to chemical fertilizers and GMO’s, and certainly much healthier for people and the planet. The agroecological food movement is joining the rest of the world in a growing tide of rebellion against predatory capitalism.
Posted on: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 16:02:19 +0000
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