Food for thought...

topic posted Sat, March 7, 2009 - 8:12 PM by 
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Have you seen Eric deCarbonnel's prediction of catastrophic declines in 2009 global food production?

www.globalresearch.ca/index.php

Hmm. Drought stress is grim.
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  • Re: Food for thought...

    Sun, March 8, 2009 - 8:29 AM
    Plus the new fad of biodiesel is taking food out of poor people's mouths to support the gluttony of China and England.
    • Re: Food for thought...

      Tue, March 31, 2009 - 6:40 PM
      Wow read the article and was stopped in my tracks as I thought about how we could all pull together to feed everyone who needs to be fed.

      In World War 2 in the UK, my wife's grandfather pulled up all his orchards and dug the ground all by himself to plant food to feed the whole village.

      It's the kind of thing we only do in dire circumstances.

      What would happen if people started doing this before disasters. Community to community, reaching out
      and offering help. A network spread across the country.

      We want to take people back to the earth, to learn to sustain themselves from what is.. to spend time in the forest but also to recognise that everything is useful....just as the Native Americans did we can do it now. . There's so much urban waste and so many ways to recycle it creatively. We just created an amazing fun light product using throwaway material. It inspired us so much that we're going to manufacture it.

      Thank you for bringing this to our attention
      We love you all
      Sunny and Pierre Soleil


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      • Re: Food for thought...

        Wed, April 1, 2009 - 5:57 PM
        The native Americans were really good at chopping down and burning down the forests. You need to do a little more research into what really occurred for 13000 years prior to Europeans landing here. There was a lot of land transformation at the hands of the "native" Americans. Quit romanticizing them. The didn't use everything, they did have a lot of waste and some of that was because they didn't have horses yet. After horses were "re-introduced" to North America, there was a lot less waste of certain game animals by the natives.
    • Re: Food for thought...

      Tue, March 31, 2009 - 6:41 PM
      One question. How is the biodiesel fad taking food out of people's mouths. I haven't heard that one before

      Love and blessings
      Sunny Soleil
      • Re: Food for thought...

        Wed, April 1, 2009 - 5:55 PM
        England and China are the largest importers of food crops to be used for biodiesel conversion. They get those food crops from third world countries and starving nations. Where once there were rainforests being torn down to make way for beef cattle, there are now rainforests being torn down to make way for more soybeans and other food crops that can be converted into biodiesel. That is one of the main reasons I am firmly against biodiesel. If this algal diesel thing can work out, I will be for that, but no other food crop. The food crisis we are in is not a shortage of crops being grown, it's an unbelievable increase in food costs due to the demand for biodiesel. Starving people could barely afford food prior to this new fad, and now the simply cannot. Their governments are literally taking food out of their starving people's mouths to sell to England and China to keep those noses pointing in the air so those countries can act like they are superior to the US because they use so much biodiesel. It's pathetic and criminal.
  • Re: Food for thought...

    Mon, March 30, 2009 - 5:35 PM
    Paranoia?
    Went to save this revealing article... grateful for the research ... and I was entirely taken away from the site. Now, I'm back here, looking for it again, and their is an error reading the page.

    Thanks for sharing, though. It is very useful in my studies.
    • Re: Food for thought...

      Wed, April 22, 2009 - 12:14 AM
      This article is crap! With all due respect. I read all of the comments from all of you and haven't found one bit of truth. You read articles and say nothing about how it effects you and what your doing about it. I bet non of you have ever visited a third world country or even know anything about what it is to starve. Bio diesel and food production have nothing to do with one another. If you can sit there and write about things you don't understand or haven't experienced, then your obviously wasting your lives wishing you could be one of those people who make a difference. My advice, simple, stop pretending you give a shit. Build a garden, teach, be available. It's amazing how so many countries all say the same thing about Americans. "Americans are dumb". Way to go guys!
      • Re: Food for thought...

        Wed, April 22, 2009 - 10:17 AM
        Okay, I'll bite: Inform us as to how Bio diesel and food production have nothing to do with another please.

        From what little information I have, Bio diesel is formulated with things humans can consume... isn't that the problem here??
      • Re: Food for thought...

        Wed, April 22, 2009 - 11:30 AM
        BWAAAHAHAHAAHAAHAHAHAAHAHAH!

        First off, I am a wildlife biologist. My education and research is all about habitat. I studied upland bird nest site selection criteria as it relates to available habitat conditions and existing plant structures. I also study soil and plant compositions and everything related to that. I actively engage with scientists involved with feeding people in third world countries. I have also BEEN to third world countries and have seen starving people with my own eyes. I am a conservationist. There is a difference between conservation and preservation. Conservation allows for the use of the land by humans. Get used to the concept.

        Biodiesel, made from FOOD CROPS and food production have nothing to do with one another?

        BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHA!

        China and England are the LARGEST importers of biodiesel made from food crops in the world. THE LARGEST. Get used to it.
        • Side note

          Wed, April 22, 2009 - 11:37 AM
          Rudolf Diesel, some time back in the late 1800's, invented an engine that ran on peanut oil. Biodiesel wasn't popular then, but it is now. Biodiesel is created from BIO fuel. The BIO part of this means living stuff. These are food crops.

          And now you know....


          ....and knowing is half the battle.

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