All week I have been struggling with how to write about the food crisis in the world. Do I refer to the many articles I have about how this is manipulated by the agro-chemical companies, by the US Federal Reserve, by a few key players in the world, such as the Rockefellers? How do I bring it all together?
Today though, it seems I shall take a different tack. I decided to see what Google had to say on global hunger.
Results of Google search - Global Hunger = 602 hits of a possible 558,000. Now this seems a lot to me. This says to me that there is a huge investment in global hunger. Yes, people have invested themselves in continuing this state of affairs. Organisations are committed to it. What would happen if they were successful? They would no longer exist. So of course they are invested in it. I do not want to be complicit in their game, and I urge you to avoid them also.
As the old Chinese saying by Lao Tzu goes - “Give A Man A Fish, Feed Him For A Day. Teach A Man To Fish, Feed Him For A Lifetime”
This brings me to a woman I’ve met, and who was recently interviewed on local television, Mij Tanith.
http://www.abc.net.au/stateline/sa/content/2006/s2275611.htm
Urban Guerrillas - Mij Tanith
MIJ TANITH, GUERRILLA GARDENER:” I was a very politically active person and I have been for years but at the moment I think I’ve realised that the only acts of politics that are actually worth putting my energy into are those that literally bear fruit. So working at a grass roots level in a way that is practical and if you think about it, growing your own food is a highly political act.”
http://www.primalseeds.org/guerrilla.htm is a site where people can learn the ‘how to’.
OK, this is not going to change the world in an instant. It does follow the saying though to “Think globally, act locally.” And as Gandhi says - “ Be the change you wish to be in the world” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi
Another aspect, for those of us in this privileged world, where we know we shall eat each day, is to consider the 100 mile diet. http://100milediet.org/category/about/
Only consuming food which has been grown within a 100 miles of one’s home. It is another way to beat the corporate greed.
Because, when it all boils down to it, greed is the basis for the hunger in this world. Make no mistake about that!
