Food shortage or capitalist monopoly
Posted by PC Latest news, video Thursday, January 13th, 2011
Is there really a food shortage? If you understood how the system works the answer is no. There is no food shortage only a buyer shortage.
Each year farmers across Canada and the United States are forced to plow under their crops because their government won’t allow them to sell. The Canadian and U.S. government allows farmers to sell their crops only to a handful of buyers. A farmer can’t sell his crop to anyone else than the government sanctioned buyers.
Today in Canada and the U.S. a farmer is banned from selling independently. If a representative of a foreign country wanted to deal directly with a farmer to buy his or her crop they can’t. Foreign countries, desperately in need of the abundance of food grown in Canada, cannot deal directly with farmers. The people of foreign countries are dying of starvation, not because of a food shortage, but because the government of Canada, the United States and Europe ban their farmers from selling their crops to them.
Original video found here -
http://www.davidanderson.ca/EN/faqs_on_the_cwb/
The WTO (World Trade Organization) promotes its agenda as a way to “feed the world.” In truth, they help feed only those with enough money to buy food. The WTO causes many small, family farmers to lose farms in countries around the world and in the United States. Farmers who are thrown off their land can no longer grow their own food, and have no money to buy any of the WTO’s bounty.
Large agricultural corporations have literally changed the way seeds have worked since the beginning of time. Farmers buy seed, but the seeds produced from this year’s crops literally can’t be planted for the next year’s crop. This is very profitable for seed producers, because farmers are forced to buy seed every year. Around the world, and according to plan, the numbers of varieties of each sort of crop are diminishing at an alarming pace.
This practice makes our food supply vulnerable, though. Once our supply of seeds is tied to just a few seed producers and a few varieties of seeds, deliberate attacks on just a few locations could trigger a word-wide food crisis. Diversity in the gene pool allows species of plants and animals to survive encounters with new strains of diseases or especially destructive insects. In a democracy, you might think there would be some dialogue in the media about the wisdom of proceeding on this course. There is almost no public discussion of these issues, though.
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