Food abundance is history
Posted by morris108 on April 9, 2008
Food abundance is not true anymore for a variety of reasons, I made a posting 2 days ago .
It was the discovery after the second world war, that the ingredients for gun powder were useful as fertilizer that started modern Industrialised agriculture.
Rice prices have gone up %50 in the last two weeks. Six countries have instituted export restrictions on rice: Already China, India, Egypt, Vietnam and Cambodia have imposed tariffs or export bans
Tony Karon speculates that food riots are the missing link for the downfall of unpopular regimes. …”revolutions succeed precisely in that moment when the soldiers and policemen paid to defend the existing order look into the eyes of the enemy confronting them, on the streets, and they see themselves, their families and neighbors, and the states power to enforce its rule evaporates.”
And he is talking about Egypt.
Hell with capitalism flailing all over the place, maybe food shortages will cunjur up a new way, a new system of exchange. Free trade has its limits. And food supplies will be the first to be protected. The first to cause civil unrest, and that means people questioning the system.
Let us not forget, part of macrobiotic eating is; to eat food that is grown locally. It is healthier.
The EU is already reappraising its BIoFuel program.
