The Way I See It
Who are they fighting? Scientists and politicians who want to introduce genetically “improved” eggplant and the corporations who will benefit from the need for farmers to buy new product every year.
What’s the big deal? In order to plant the “improved” version, all old varieties must be destroyed.
Every farmer must comply, because the old variety might “contaminate” the new and improved…potentially wiping out the farmers' livelihood – and their way of life.
Why are we doing this? Someone, somewhere started the belief that there is not enough food, that the earth is insufficient to naturally feed her people, and came up with the solution that we need techno varieties.
This is not new. Ask the corn farmers.
So now we are hell bent on the “solution” to the “problem” that the earth cannot feed her people. Has anybody asked the question, “Is the concept that the earth cannot feed her people legitimate?"
The way I see it, the notion that there is not enough food, that the earth cannot feed her people, must be challenged.
While I understand the fight taken up by many to stop corporations like Monsanto, I am growing a bit tired of the David and Goliath story.
Like a cancer, Monsanto and the like have crept into the halls of justice, into the classrooms and laboratories, into the fields, and most significantly, into your belly.
Fighting Monsanto has taken its toll financially and has left many with the sickness of hopelessness. And Monsanto is only the tip of the iceberg. We are no longer surprised or alarmed when we feed our children processed foods with ingredient labels containing more chemicals than food.
The way I see it, it is time to choose life. I am tired of fighting death.
Someone said the earth can’t feed her people and we acquiesced.
I say the earth CAN feed her people and there are more people willing to pick up a hoe than a gun, so let’s get busy.
Let’s return this garden, let’s enjoy the fruit of our labor,and let us help our children remember the wisdom of walking in beauty on the earth. Now, perhaps more than ever, with so much destruction around us, it is time to chart a new course.
Okay, so you like the city and don’t want to farm. How about supporting a CSA, or participating in a community garden? How about reducing or eliminating the processed foods you consume? Make that political statement and stop feeding the cancer.
If everyone who loves life took a few conscious moments to choose life, we could stop the madness. If everyone who loves living would stop aligning with the concepts of fear and doubt, we could stop the madness. If for once we decided to ignore the pundits of doom and simply took up the task at hand, we would, most definitely, stop the madness.
And to you, who want to farm, but don’t know how, or don’t have land…then stay tuned because this is what www.farmslinkpeople.org is about. Getting people back on the land, helping one another, feeding one another, and having a good time.
This blog will salute and support the efforts of those who are choosing life.
It is my hope that we will see how very strong we are.
I sent this blog to a few people from work for their awareness.
Great writing!
Actually many years ago, an Economist challenged in his thesis the law of surplus/demand and proved that the earth provides enough when people trust that earth can give enough and when the earth is well taken care. He proved his thesis by following a research in Poland when there was a scarcity surplus of potatoes for the market demand. The price continued to rise in the market in fear that the surplus was not enough for the demand but the Polish would not stop eating potatoes no matter how high the price was. This Economist proved that there were always potatoes to feed people’s demand. Eventually, the surplus/demand was in a constant line making the potatoes available at a reasonable price.
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