Guest guest Posted July 2, 2008 Report Share Posted July 2, 2008 The Bill and Melissa Gates Foundation is also funding a huge vaccination programme and that is a genocidal programme. Check the www.whale.to website for further information. Watch Dr David Ayoub's talk " Mercury, Autism and the Global Vaccination Agenda " . The video is available on google video and on several other websites, the above mentioned included. Dorothee On 7/1/08, bestsurprise2002 <bestsurprise2002 wrote: > > > Published on Wednesday, May 22, 2002 in the _Seattle Post-Intelligencer_ > (http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/) > > A Better Way to Feed the Hungry > by Frances Moore Lappé and Anna Lappé > _http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views02/0522-03.htm_ > (http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views02/0522-03.htm) > Bill Gates thinks he's got a brilliant idea: fighting malnutrition abroad > by > fortifying food. > The scheme, backed with $50 million from the Gates Foundation, in part > encourages Proctor & Gamble, Philip Morris' Kraft, and other companies to > develop > vitamin and iron-fortified processed foods. It then facilitates their entry > > into Third World markets. > Gates seems to believe we don't have time to address the complex social and > > political roots of malnutrition. But in opting for this single-focus, > top-down, technical intervention, Gates can end up hurting the very people > he wants > to help. > His strategy ignores a crucial reality: Many, if not most, of the hungriest > > people in the world are themselves farmers. They eke out a living by > selling > what they grow, and eating it. Helping foreign food purveyors penetrate > their > markets will only further rob them of livelihood. For example, India's > dairy > cooperatives -- many run by poor women -- would be hard-pressed to > withstand > the onslaught of Kraft's marketing power. > The Gates approach also hurts the poor if it shifts tastes toward processed > > foods -- typically adding fat, sugar, and salt while removing needed fiber > and micronutrients. This diet trend already contributes to the spread of > diseases currently burdening the industrial world. Obesity and diet-related > > diseases including diabetes, heart disease, and cancer are becoming a > global crisis. > In the Third World, grossly insufficient health care budgets are now being > diverted to treat these conditions, and away from treating deadly > infectious > diseases. > Aiding market penetration by global food processing companies also ends up > making consumers dependent on foreign suppliers for life's essentials. But > while corporations such as Kraft or Proctor & Gamble might well participate > in > Gates' do-good scheme, ultimately their interests diverge from those of the > > hungry. By law, theirs is assuring the highest return to their shareholders > -- > foreigners -- not the improved well-being of local people, and certainly > not > hungry local people too poor to make their needs felt in the market. > Even the piece of the Gates scheme focused on fortifying grain (presumably > locally grown) misses critical lessons learned since the first World Food > Conference in Rome declared war on global hunger almost three decades ago. > Then, many still believed that hunger could be solved by simple, > mass-production approaches. After decades of failed, technologically-driven > solutions, a > new wisdom is emerging. > We recently traveled on five continents, witnessing a heartening array of > local initiatives addressing the complex, interwoven roots of needless > malnutrition. These are not pie-in-the-sky solutions; they are working. > In 1993 Brazil's fourth largest city, Belo Horizonte, declared food a right > > of citizenship. This single shift of frame -- beyond charitable hand-outs, > beyond market tyranny -- unleashed dozens of innovations: Making city plots > > available for local, organic farmers as long as they keep prices within the > > reach of the poor; posting where to find the cheapest prices for over 40 > food > staples; enhancing nutrition in school lunches by replacing processed foods > with > local organic food. The city also tries to innoculate newly arrived > dwellers > against global corporate food advertising (probably including that of the > very companies in the Gates fold) by educating them to the value of > sticking > with the healthy whole foods diets they grew up on in the countryside. > Across the globe in Kenya, women of the Green Belt Movement, an > anti-desertification campaign that has planted 20 million trees, are now > reclaiming > diverse, traditional food crops. They are creating organic kitchen gardens > growing > precisely the fruits and vegetables that provide the nutrients Gates' > fortification scheme seeks to supply. > A promising international " fair trade " movement now also addresses the > powerlessness that leaves people malnourished in the first place. Third > World > producers can market fair trade products, such as coffee certified by > Oakland-based Transfair USA, helping to ensure the livelihood of some of > the world's > poorest people. > Tens of thousands of such innovative efforts, many citizen driven, continue > > to emerge on every continent. They are succeeding because they address the > real causes of malnutrition -- concentrated economic and political power > that > blocks people from pursuing their interests and from building vibrant, > sustainable local economies, accountable to local needs. > Just imagine what might happen if Bill Gates chose not to fortify corporate > > foods but to use his $50 million to fortify efforts like these, encouraging > > their cross-fertilization and replication. With nutrient deficiencies > stunting > the lives of at least two billion people we can't afford ill-considered > strategies that will hurt rather than help. > Frances Moore Lappé and Anna Lappé are authors of " Hope's Edge: The Next > Diet for a Small Planet " _www.dietforasmallplanet.com._ > (http://www.dietforasmallplanet.com./) > ©1999-2002 Seattle Post-Intelligencer > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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