Our most potent political weapon is food. If we take back our agriculture, if we buy and raise produce locally, we can begin to break the grip of corporations that control a food system as fragile, unsafe and destined for collapse as our financial system. If we continue to allow corporations to determine what we eat, as well as how food is harvested and distributed, then we will become captive to rising prices and shortages and increasingly dependent on cheap, mass-produced food filled with sugar and fat. Food, along with energy, will be the most pressing issue of our age. And if we do not build alternative food networks soon, the social and political ramifications of shortages and hunger will be devastating.
Food is Power and the Powerful is poisoning it
Categories: California · Food Banks · Food Shortage · Interesting news · Low Income · agriculture · economy · homeless · poverty
Tagged: agriculture, children, culture, Food Banks, Food Shortage, Low Income, poverty, solutions to food shortages
Feb 20, 4:36 PM (ET)
By GARANCE BURKE
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – Federal water managers said Friday that they plan to cut off water, at least temporarily, to thousands of California farms as a result of the deepening drought gripping the state.
Drought to cut off Federal water to California Farms
Categories: Food Banks · Food Shortage · Interesting news · Low Income · agriculture · economy · poverty
Tagged: agriculture, culture, economy, food, Interesting news, Low Income, poverty
Richard Rominger,Michael Dimock
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
California’s unfolding drought – now three years running – may prove to be the worst in recorded history. Farms have begun to fail, communities to crumble, food prices to rise and more people are going hungry. How we respond to the drought will offer us a template of how to respond to global climate change.
Response to Drought is dry run
Categories: Food Banks · Food Shortage · Low Income · agriculture · economy · poverty
Tagged: agriculture, culture, economy, Food Banks, Food Shortage, Low Income, povery
