I was on Canadian telly this morning with Anna Lappé from the Small Planet Institute. Her work is splendid and her latest project, on food and climate change, is extremely interesting: check it out at TakeABite.cc.
The good people at Food First have put up a fine array of articles about the current food crisis. Check them out here.
Repost from the Coalition of Immokalee Workers website.
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Today’s the International Day of Peasants’ Struggle, and there’ll be over 60 actions taking place around the world to celebrate it.
I’m in the land of Diet Coke Plus, the absurd end-point to the fad of adding nutrients to food from which those same nutrients were systematically stripped out.
I’m a little disappointed with The Observer today. I’d been holding back on posting all my thoughts about food riots so that I could pull them out of the hat today with a comment piece in their pages. My article began with worries about globalisation and the consequences of food riots in Haiti.
Like the title says. The report, from the Soil Association, here. Yet it’s the GM lobby that’ll be using the food crisis as an opportunity to pimp out their unsavoury product, all the evidence of its benefits notwithstanding.
So here’s a response from Via Campesina to the food price crisis. I imagine that in the wake of the food riots, the temptation to say ‘told you so’ must have been overwhelming to the representatives of farmers’ and landless peoples’ movements around the world.
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