Food Shortages Make Me Sick

The media is full of stories of rising food prices and the possibility of tens, if not hundreds, of millions of people around the world facing severe hunger and possible starvation as a result.

The reason given for the rising prices is food shortages. Food shortages? Who is anyone kidding? Does anyone genuinely believe that there is a shortage of food on planet earth?

In the last house they lived in, my parents had a small apple tree. Every year they would make apple jam, jelly, pies, cakes, tarts, juice: anything they could think of to use up the apples. They gave apples away, took them to the local donkey sanctuary for feed. No matter what they made and did with the apples, they could never use them all up. From one small tree.

In the little village I called home when I lived in Portugal every garden had half a dozen orange trees. Everyone who lived in the village was overdosing on vitamin c, yet the ground around the trees were littered with fallen, rotting oranges that no-one could use. It was the same in every village I visited.

Nature is abundant and naturally provides vast quantities of all kinds of foods.

Then there is the grotesque wastage of food from cafes, bars, restaurants, supermarkets and homes throughout the more than plentiful world, where the only thing that is scarce is a sense of decency and morality.

Of course you can't parcel up all the wasted food from those that have far too much and post it to those who are starving to death. But you can be under no illusion that the only reason people go hungry is because of politics and economics: it's got nothing to do with scarcity.

It all smacks of a global agenda to push the unreal food industry that make genetically modified seeds and plants, etc. If a few million of the world's poorest people have to suffer and die, so be it. The planet is awash with humans like never before, life is cheap and the poor are easily expendable. Nothing stands in the way of global corporations and their agendas.

It's enough to make me sick?