Thursday, January 15, 2015

How the Great Food War Will Be Won


(This is a great article which I as a reader of Kauilapele's Blog found today and it is quite interesting, especially for people who are in the organic food industry, people who truly want to protect the environment and it's insects and livestock, and people who don't want to be forced to eat poisonous food.  It shows you how to help win this fight.  This is a little complex IMO but well worth the read.)

greenmedinfo_logo_1Related to the last post, in this way: the media, and in this case, big food company PR firms, can put up all kinds of data, but based on an idea that “We’re going to run out of food so GMO, Roundup, other pesticides are NECESSARY (dammit)!”
Found this at RMN.
“Researchers from Iowa have shown that organic farming methods can yield almost as highly as pesticide-intensive methods. Other researchers, from Berkeley, California, have reached a similar conclusion. Indeed, both findings met with a very enthusiastic reception. The enthusiasm is appropriate, but only if one misses a deep and fundamental point: that even to participate in such a conversation is to fall into a carefully laid trap.
The strategic centerpiece of Monsanto’s PR, and also that of just about every major commercial participant in the industrialized food system, is to focus on the promotion of one single overarching idea… that only they can produce enough for the future population (Peekhaus 2010). Thus non-industrial systems of farming, such as all those which use agro-ecological methods, or SRI, or are localized and family-oriented, or which use organic methods, or non-GMO seeds, cannot feed the world.
“…the necessary shift in perception is to see that, as in most wars, the crucial struggle in the food war is the one inside people’s heads. And that the great food war will be won by the side that understands that and uses it best.
“…The natural advantages of the grassroots in this realm are many. They include the power of the internet…
“Consequently, it is perfectly possible that a lie that took several powerful industries many decades to build up could be dismantled in months…”
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