The Investor Class and their New Weapon of Mass Destruction: Hunger
January 24, 2012 in Hunger
It is not the “hand of fate” that starves millions of people to death year in and year out. Starvation is a condition that could totally be avoided. Not a single human being on this planet should be starving to death.
Once again, I guess we can thank Newt Gingrich for opening his mouth again. it seems like every time he opens his pie hole, he just digs a deeper hole for the investor class. His horrible racist comments on food stamp recipients. His revival of the Ronald Reagan specter of Reagan’s totally fabricated Black Welfare Queen has turned the nation’s attention to two more important topics for Americans: racism and hunger. Thank you, Newt. Whether you are aware of it or not, whether you intended to or not, you nonetheless seem to be calling our attention to topics that really are important. Last week you educated many of us regarding the true nature of hedge fund and private equity groups like Bain. Now this week you are turning our attention to the issues of racism and hunger.
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Now Newt, with his attempts to morph into a slightly chubbier version of Ronald Reagan, has inadvertently broken the indecent silence on the topic of hunger.
“Every five seconds, a child under 10 dies of hunger. – Thirty-five million people die each year from hunger or its immediate aftermath. – One billion people are permanently and severely malnourished and the situation is becoming increasingly catastrophic.” (Jean Ziegler)
In his latest book “Mass Destruction – the Geopolitics of Hunger”, Jean Ziegler talks about the current state of the world and the neoliberal politics of starvation of the poor, which has led to a crisis situation amounting to calculated murder. What we are witnessing today is the worst hunger crisis in human history is. And it is all because of human greed, colossal mismanagement for profit.
Professor Ziegler deals in detail with the various causes of the current worldwide hunger disaster, which could have been avoided. This crisis is not determined by fate – or, to use Ziegler’s own word – ‘La famine n’est pas une fatalité’. The world could perfectly well provide food for 12 million people, almost the double of the present population of 7 million.
So what made this murderous situation possible where thousands of people are dying (37,000 every day) from lack of food and clean water? La famine n’est pas une fatalité. It could have been avoided. It should not be happening.
The agroindustry is killing off small farmers – some countries are fighting back
The goals of the ‘cold monsters’ (les monstres froids) of the agroindustry, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Cargill and Bunge, et al. is to suck the life out of small farmers all over the world, especially in Africa and southern Asia. ”
Read Siv O’Neall’s entire article: ”Hunger is a ‘Weapon of Mass Destruction’. says Jean Ziegler”
