A recent United Nations study confirms that the world already has enough food. They have too much food if they want to make Biodiesel! Correct? The problem is one of distribution.
Global trade rules put food production and distribution in the hands of agribusiness giants, supplanting the traditional system of local production for local consumption.
Agribusinesses are totally against this message:
(All employees of agribusinesses please cover your eyes, thank you)
BUY LOCAL SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL FARMERS
AT THE FARMERS MARKETS!
This message is MORE important than global oil
Why?
Because you CAN'T DO ANYTHING about global oil and it is coming like a train anyway. This you CAN do something about. This may save YOUR life.
We know peak oil is coming, we know there will be a time when shipping stops for a while. Or for a bit longer, whatever.
PRICES for Biofuels are bribing our farmers and even our AGRIBUSINESSES to give up food production with IMPOSSIBLE to achieve promise of replacing oil with Biofuels.
Agribusinesses are in it for the money, and biofuels will pay the MOST I promise, guess what our local farmers will go to also if they can't support themselves?
They think they are doing a good deed saving us from fuel starvation! But they cannot do it!
Any calculator will tell you this is impossible to even touch our fuel needs with bioANYTHING.
The message to TRY AND MAKE AS MUCH BIO as possible, as much wind as possible tas much solar as possible, max possible ethanol max poss biodiesel and CONSERVATION
THAT MESSAGE WILL TAKE OUR FARMERS AWAY.
THE POISON PILL IS THIS BAIT:
Give the farmers a MORE LUCRATIVE MARKET (after they destroyed the lucrative food market) and THEY WILL GO THERE. Because it makes them money. Nothing against making money, but we need farmers to make money on FOOD.
We should immediately tax all incoming food 100% but we won't. So therefore, Yes, thanks to SUPER chain markets and GLOBAL SHIPPING they cannot compete in food, so the last vestiges of farmers are EVEN NOW switching to biofuels. Where they can survive.
I promise you, soon you will starve, if all our local farmers grow non-edible crops.. Relying on majority of food from overseas is a giant trap. WHEN this gets disrupted we will then be sorry, but you cannot bring back the small local farms even now. They are our vanishing resources they cannot come back.
The most important PEAK OIL message is: Biofuels cannot save us, but it will take away your food.
This web site already has proved biofuels are not going to do ANYTHING about fuel needs of this country or the world. Not at all.
But we miss the point our farmers are being taken away from us NOW. As we speak. We have starved them with NAFTA into changing crops.
You don't see it till they are gone. Frequently as I contact them for more food, more and more tell me as I see them "We are going for the paying crops (ethanol biodiesel) rapeseed, sugar beats, corn, switchgrass etc." We won't be doing potatoes or corn or whatver...
THERE IS GOOD PAY THERE not here!
This globalization is the last step of a global economy, it will be what takes us down. We KNOW there will be a sudden wakeup with fuel shortages for a few weeks, Then there will be a famine such as you have never seen.
The world is producing the wrong kind of food, by a process that leaves millions of people landless, homeless, cashless, and unable to feed themselves.
Is it any wonder that there is huge resentment against the west?
The main problem is that globalization of food production pushes small, self reliant farmers off their lands and replaces them with large chemical and machine-intensive corporate farms. It does not emphasize food for hungry local communities. Instead, it encourages exports resulting in monocultures - a single crop grown over thousands of acres. These crops are usually luxury items cultivated for export and are notoriously vulnerable to insect blights and bad weather, and cause soil infertility.
"The globalization of agriculture fails to address the world's hunger crisis. In fact it makes it worse. During the past two decades, the total amount of food in the, world has increased, but so has hunger.
Don't believe it? this is what happened in this country, we are not far behind when our oil supplies SLOW DOWN. I did not say RUN OUT I said begins to slow down.
Agri businesses run on oil, when there is a shortage for even a few days whole fields will become worthless.
Here is the last and most important message I have for you, please listen so I don't tell you later I TOLD YOU SO.
Buy as much food as you can locally with simple currency to protect your farmer resource. These small farmers are your richest resources, most precious. Over the last year we have not bought any food from any store, just to see if it could be done, just salt and jars and bags and we have found we live quite fine. We don't have a lot stored anywhere just buy as we need it. This was just a test for us . It is not hard. Soon this will be your only way of gettting food.
Get names of people locally every time you find a source get their NAME and NUMBER and ADDRESS and promise them much more business so they can plan for next year. You may just save both your farmers life and yours. No, it is not NECESSARY to do this now, but now is the time to get practice.
thats all thank you.
The small farms in this area lost the ability to grow for themselves.
