The “Third” World DOES NOT Need Charity, It Needs Food Sovereignty
In our current world Food is grown as a commodity, this single philosophical blunder in world is powered by only one thing: Money. If Food were grown to be eaten by Humans, Instead of grown to be sold to Humans WE COULD SAVE THE WORLD.
It is for this reason most the massively vast majority of us do not know how to choose fruits and vegetables that are healthy or tasty, we choose them if they are bright, shiny, colourful and large!
Change this single Idea of Food being for Human Health instead of for Global Capital and you could expect life expectancies to sky rocket world wide and quickly level disparities between the “western” world and the other “worlds” [DON’T WE ALL LIVE ONE ONE EARTH, I HATE THAT 3RD WORLD BULLSHIT]
FROM A ARTICLE BY VANDANA SHIVA
“There are a number of reasons why the prices of food commodities are rising in [the “Third” World as a Whole, and in] India. The first is related to economic policies – the policies of integrating India with global markets.
There is a huge agrarian crisis but it's not from the beginning of our freedom, it's not a leftover of feudalism. The agrarian crisis is a result of globalisation.
The farmers who are committing suicide in India are precisely in those areas where genetically engineered cotton is being grown by Monsanto [a chemicals and agricultural science corporation].
This is a new crisis. A small farmer could make a living in this country a few years ago. Today, as a result of globalisation, agriculture is being run down.
We have grown enough wheat in
Give up the forced linking with an international commodity market. Allow farmers to grow and give them a just price. We can solve the problem tomorrow.
I work with 400,000 farmers in India growing organic food. We have doubled yields and doubled output on farms. Nobody is dying of starvation in the villages where there is organic farming.
"With the price rise, I can see about 70 to 80 per cent of India will be pushed into hunger and starvation"
” – Vandana Shiva
