Jun 21 2007
U.S. Agricultural Policy Linked to the Surge in Illegals.
By Ivor Hughes
6/21/07
“The flow of immigrants north from Mexico since NAFTA is inextricably linked to the flow of American corn in the opposite direction, a flood of subsidized grain that the Mexican government estimates has thrown two million Mexican farmers and other agricultural workers off the land since the mid-90s. (More recently, the ethanol boom has led to a spike in corn prices that has left that country reeling from soaring tortilla prices; linking its corn economy to ours has been an unalloyed disaster for Mexico’s eaters as well as its farmers.) You can’t fully comprehend the pressures driving immigration without comprehending what U.S. agricultural policy is doing to rural agriculture in Mexico. ”
The Way We Live Now … You Are What You Grow
By MICHAEL POLLAN
The New York Times, April 22 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/22/magazine/22wwlnlede.t.html
Protectionist food politics and starvation are the seeds of war. In 1984 and under American pressure… New Zealand adopted the American free market model … almost overnight we introduced a system that produced an underclass with all of its destructive on flow into a rise of criminality of every kind… crimes of violence… theft of property .. police brutality… food banks for the new underclass… A sharp rise in nutrition based disease… children going to school on a packet of instant noodles with its little flavor sachet of Neuro Toxins.
This user pays mentality was extraordinarily destructive to the social fabric… the suicides and the ever increasing family violence mirrors exactly what is on plain view in the USA and the UK.
A land where Corporations direct the people elected legislature is seldom productive of any kind of good for the new serfdom. New Zealand is a young vibrant and resilient nation… we survived the Corporation led economic holocaust… but the damage has been done.
I shudder to think what kind of effect these policy’s have in 3rd world nations… their social structures are ill equipped to deal with the economic equivalent of Atilla the Hun which is unleashed upon the hapless peoples… any time .. any where… it is no longer necessary to be an Arab in an oil rich land to invite destruction.
The Corporations are trying to wrest control of the food supply into their own mortician hands. They use their paid lackeys in the Media to spread a myth of food scarcity and how Genetically Modified crops and animals are going to save the world…
Nothing could be further from the truth… there is no shortage of food … but there is a shortage of money to buy it with and an obscenely unjust system of distribution.
Michael This stuff just breaks my heart, the ruling elite have always used starvation as the genocide weapon of choice, but this twist of starvation by surfeit of useless calories is obviously the method for the modern west where children with Biafran bellies would not make good news footage. These are the sickest bunch ever in history.
All irelevant. Depleted Uranium will wipe the planet clean of all life.
So make peace with your Maker.