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marndin
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 Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 10:43 am Post subject: Global food shortages - What to do? |
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I realise that this isn't obviously 9/11 related, but feel that it is part of the overall strategy of control and manipulation. the current situation is due to many years of deliberate and calculated changes to the farming industry, and already there is talk of lowering the current restrictions on growing GM (genetically Modified) crops.
Peter Taylor recently delivered a presentation for us (changing times) in Lewes, where he put forward evidence of 'global cooling'.
In Peters opinion (and the global temperature backs him up) - we are entering a period of global cooling, last year the global temperature went down by 1 degree, which is as much as it has risen by in the last 50 years! This is far more dangerous than global warming, as food will and is becoming scarce! We are already seeing evidence of this America has introduced food rationing in it's Walmart (and other) stores this week. So far the products rationed are flour, rice and vegetable oil.
I would advise anyone who has a bit of space in their garden to grow as much food as possible. Now is the right time to plant vegetables.
Peters Research can be found here: http://ethos-uk.com/downloads.html
Evidence of global food shortages can be found here:
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23591506-643,00.htm l
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/aug/31/climatechange.food
A point of urgency is immediately STOPPING the use of fertile land to grow bio-fules. This is exacerbating the problem. Another thing we can do to help is to go vegetarian ( I have been vegetarian for over 18 years).
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/health-ne ws/the-big-question-is-changing-our-diet-the-key-to-resolving-the-glob al-food-crisis-809566.html |
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The obvious solutions will be found by implementing the guidelines of Codex Alimentarius i'm sure! 
That was the first thing that hit me when this came out. that and the fact that the oil companies are * scared of losing out to biodiesel. The growing of fuel crops is already happening in a pretty major way, rapeseed oil is widely used in Germany for fuel, in fact we export it to them. rather than exporting it, we could use it ourselves and return our set aside to production. Unfortunately for NuLabour this would mean that the power is returned to the farmers, who they have been trying so hard to break (as thatcher did the miners). Making farmers the controllers of energy would be very unfavourable for the big businesses, as it would be spreading the wealth.
There is a much bigger picture here and it's not about food. |
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marndin
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| mark_e wrote: | | The growing of fuel crops is already happening in a pretty major way, rapeseed oil is widely used in Germany for fuel, in fact we export it to them. rather than exporting it, we could use it ourselves and return our set aside to production. |
Set asides are back in production now. |
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mark_e
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| not where i live they're not. |
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marndin
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| mark_e wrote: | | not where i live they're not. |
Where's that? |
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http://moneynews.com/money/archives/st/2008/4/24/100454.cfm?s=st
| Quote: | Wheat Crop Failures Could be Total, Experts Warn
Thursday, April 24, 2008 10:03 a.m. EDT
On top of record-breaking rice prices and corn through the roof on ethanol demand, wheat is now rusting in the fields across Africa.
Officials fear near total crop losses, and the fungus, known as Ug99, is spreading.
Wheat prices have been soaring this week on top of already high prices, and futures contracts spiked, too, on panic buying.
Experts fear the cost of bread could soon follow the path of rice, the price of which has triggered riots in some countries and prompted countries to cut off exports.
David Kotok, chairman and chief investment officer of Cumberland Advisors, said the deadly fungus, Puccinia graminis, is now spreading through some areas of the globe where "crop losses are expected to reach 100 percent.”
Losses in Africa are already at 70 percent of the crop, Kotok said.
"The economic losses expected from this fungus are now in the many billions and growing. Worse, there is an intensifying fear of exacerbated food shortages in poor and emerging countries of the world,” Kotok told investors in a research note.
"The ramifications are serious. Food rioting continues to expand around the world. We saw the most recent in Johannesburg.
"So far this unrest has been directed at rising prices. Actual shortages are still to come.”
Last month, scientists met in the Middle East to determine measures to track the progress of "Ug99,” which was first discovered in 1999 in Uganda.
The fungus has spread from its initial outbreak site in Africa to Asia, including Iran and Pakistan. Spores of the fungus spread with the winds, according science journal reports.
According to the Food and Agriculture Office (FAO) of the United Nations, approximately a quarter of the world’s global wheat harvest is currently threatened by the fungus.
Meanwhile, global wheat stocks are at lows not seen in half a century, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Scientists fear that the spores could spread on the wind and reach the U.S. and Canada or Europe.
"It will take five to eight years to genetically engineer a resistance,” said Kotok. "In the interim, U.S. agriculture faces higher risk.”
Kotok is worried that governments around the globe are reacting to the crisis — which he believes is as big of a threat as bird flu — inappropriately by artificially lowering the prices of domestic wheat, and raising export taxes on wheat.
William Gamble, president of Emerging Market Strategies, tells MoneyNews that artificial mechanisms put in place by governments could be as much to blame for the crisis as anything.
"Twenty countries have put food in price controls or export restrictions,” Gamble says.
"Others have restricted futures markets. It is the politicians who are interfering in the markets to protect themselves, and that causes the problem.” |
Can things get any worse??? 
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| At the rate things are progressing, a famine kind of seems inevitable in ill equipped third world countries, so no for those people it probably couldn't get any worse. |
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