Food Sovereignty NOW! [View All]

[undergroundpanther]

Pissed about the high food prices,sick of the lies and games about inflation and things driving up the price of everything from cheese to bread?
We pay what we are told to because we lost our food sovereignty.


What is Food Sovereignty ?

Food Sovereignty is the RIGHT of peoples, communities, and countries to define their own agricultural, labor, fishing, food and land policies which are ecologically, socially, economically and culturally appropriate to their unique circumstances. It includes the true right to food and to produce food, which means that all people have the right to safe, nutritious and culturally appropriate food and to food-producing resources and the ability to sustain themselves and their societies.

http://www.ukabc.org/foodsovpaper.htm#b
http://www.foodsovereignty.org/new/
http://www.foodfirst.org/progs/global/food/finaldeclaration.html

What happens to people without food sovereignty?
Gradually wars forced families to "stretch" their foods,so Americans learned to stop relying on local produce and more on the Corporations and supermarkets.
http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe40s/life_24.html
In time we changed in response to the markets and wars profit and death.
http://www.msgcpa.com/general.php?category=Industry+Library&headline=Refrigerated+Warehousing

Nobody questions these changes while they occur..or when the trend could be reversed. Carter saw the future of our oil habit..Car addiction. And Carter tried to warn America about Oil Dependence decades ago and it killed his political career because Americans didn't want to change if it inconvenienced them.. But here we claiming to be going green but I don't see much evidence of changes like the ones that NEED to occur. No evidence enough people are ready to give up cars and ride other forms of transport,we still got sprawl and in a lot of these suburbs car apartheid separates people by class and location..How out towns get planned is around cars not people.In this way oil and car companies infect the way we structure our lives. Seems most everything has been foisted on us by corporations or wars. Not for or by the people living there or eating the foods. Consumerism and this accompanying dis-empowerment shapes us by altering lifestyles, until we no longer have food sovereignty anymore.

http://www.unep.org/OurPlanet/imgversn/84/zamora.html
The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply
http://www.naturalhealthyellowpages.com/news/index.html
http://www.poptel.org.uk/panap/caravan/1.htm
http://www.population-security.org/28-APP2.html
http://www.democracynow.org/2007/9/14/michael_klare_on_the_internal_war
http://dieoff.org/page185.htm


Come to think of it did corporations ASK Americans if they wanted frozen food TV dinners or pesticide coated peaches, lies to us, or did they just put it on the market and sold us on it by convenience and increasing work hours?