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At a time when the US government talks
of food shortages yet is doing
nothing to ensure food for its people
but is doing numbers of things thatseriously increase the threat and leave people more helpless, it is relevant to look at again at the famine in Ireland in the 19th century, considered "one of the darkest chapters in world history." This matters because the famine appears now to have been caused intentionally.
The Famine Plot: England's Role in
Ireland's Greatest Tragedy
"During a Biblical seven years in
the middle of the nineteenth century,
Ireland experienced the worst disaster
a nation could suffer. Fully a
quarter of its citizens either perished
from starvation or emigrated, with
so many dying en route that it was
said, "you can walk dry shod to America on their bodies." In this
grand, sweeping narrative, Ireland"s best-known historian, Tim Pat Coogan,
gives a fresh and comprehensive account of one of the darkest chapters in world
history, arguing that Britain was in large part responsible for the extent of
the national tragedy, and in fact engineered the food shortage in one of the
earliest cases of ethnic cleansing. So strong was anti-Irish sentiment in the mainland
that the English parliament referred to the famine as "God's lesson."
"Drawing on recently uncovered
sources, and with the sharp eye of a seasoned historian, Coogan delivers fresh
insights into the famine's causes, recounts its unspeakable events, and delves
into the legacy of the "famine mentality" that followed immigrants
across the Atlantic to the shores of the United States and had lasting effects
on the population left behind. This is a broad, magisterial history of a
tragedy that shook the nineteenth century and still impacts the worldwide Irish
diaspora of nearly 80 million people today."
The list of things that the government
has done or has put in place that would only exacerbate or even cause
food shortages are many and they run side by side with policies that prevent
ordinary people and especially the poor from growing their own food.
An article on Alexandria, Virginia, exposes how it quietly
removed home gardens from the poor in public housing, while loudly touting
access to fresh local food it had itself ended, as well as promoting community
gardens, which the city controls, and in what turns out to be extremely limited
number and limited space to grow food, and charges a fee. This sleight of hand
has occurred across the US. Cities
proudly proclaim community gardens but behind the scenes, they have removed the
poor's access to growing food on the land they live on, including simply
growing food in pots.
http://foodfreedomgroup.com/2012/10/23/alexandria-virginia-stopping-the-poor-from-growing-food-by-ted-brooks/
Primarily using recent corporate
"food safety" laws as the weapon to curtail people's producing or
sharing or selling food themselves, laws have been put into place and police
actions have been occurring that expose a pattern of
*Cities are passing "food safety"
ordinances making it a crime for people to give food to the homeless.
*Cities and states are using armed
agencies to attack local food producers, having turned misdemeanors
around such minor infractions as certification, into felonies and even conspiracies
to sell fresh food.
Worse, people are being accused of
breaking laws that are not even in existence.
<http://www.naturalnews.com/037479_LA_county_Rawesome_foods_Sharon_Palmer.ht
ml>.
*The FDA is attacking organic farms and
food producers, especially around access to raw milk, even as the
CDC puts out false information on it that is at odds with the CDC's own data
which show it to be as much as 35,000 times safer than other foods. It is the only real milk in the country.
<http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/08/31/us-government
-data-proves-that-raw-milk-is-safe.aspx>
*The USDA has shut down most small
local meat processors across the country – despite no history of contamination
- and left the biggest corporate processors in place, despite an on-going
history of illnesses and deaths from contamination. In shutting down local processors, the
government has cut local communities off from control over local food, and left
them at the whim of the big processors to deliver meat at all.
<http://healthmaven.blogspot.com/2011/08/monsantos-fda-goes-after-countrys-only.html>
<http://healthmaven.blogspot.com/2011/08/monsantos-fda-goes-after-countrys-only.html>
<http://www.opednews.com/articles/History-HACCP-and-the-Foo-by-Nicole-Johnson-090906-229.html>
*Having gotten rid of the small
operations, the multinationals have just demonstrated why they put
"food safety" laws into place.
The food safety agency in Canada (with USDA's
help) just brought a major slaughtering operation to destruction in only a few
days and with no means provided for the company to correct any alleged problem
- setting it up for easy picking by the multinationals.
<http://www.salem-news.com/articles/may282011/gmo-not-food-cs.php>
*The food safety division of the FDA
has been directly asserting in court that people have no right to choose their
own food, or to contract with each other,
and even no right to their own health.
<http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/05/29/fda-says-you-have-no-right-to-real-food-unless-they-give-you-permission-first.aspx>
*Corporate lawyers have gotten Food redefined
as "stuff" knowing that GMOs do not fulfill the definition of
food. The basic of nutritional aspect of
food is entirely missing as is its capacity to heal, and support fertility.
<http://www.salem-news.com/articles/june182011/gmo-food-stuff-eb.php>
<http://www.salem-news.com/articles/may282011/gmo-not-food-cs.php>
*The EPA is one step closer to
approving Dow's Agent Orange pesticide , and thus opens up the possibility of
the FDA declaring an infestation or contamination on organic farms and ordering
aerial spraying with this new Agent Orange "pesticide," thus wiping
out normal agriculture in the US and truly killing the soil, animals, insects
and ultimately, people. This scenario is
folded into the food safety law, designed by Monsanto's VP Michael
Taylor who is now running the FDA's food safety division using that law,
putting Monsanto in charge of all farms in the US. Given that the DHS has declared organic crops
bio-threats, and the USDA has listed earthworms – the indication of a healthy
ecosystem - as an invasive species, the door is open to the FDA ordering the
spraying of Agent Orange pesticide on private local organic farms and even
gardens.
<http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-2009-Food-Safety-Bil-by-Nicole-Johnson-090418-680.html>
<http://www.salem-news.com/articles/september242012/homeland-monsanto-wk.php>
*The food safety law allows for the
shut down of food into cities if contamination is declared, without it having
to be proven, and as though absolute starvation were preferable to contaminated
food. These provisions codify how the
government behaved in New Orleans after Katrina, shutting off delivery of food
and water (even donated by citizens), and preventing people from leaving the
area, and gunning down unarmed people who broke into stores to obtain food.
*The government is moving ahead rapidly
with GMO approvals despite emergency warnings from agricultural experts that
farm animals are going sterile and agriculture itself could collapse here.
<http://www.greenpasture.org/fermented-cod-liver-oil-butter-oil-vitamin-d-vitamin-a/more-on-glyphosate---don-hubers-warning-to-vilsack-and-his-cover-letter/>
*In Michigan, the Department of Natural
Resources, leaving all logic- except the profit of industrial
agriculture - behind, has declared small farmers' heritage pigs, which are
raised behind fences, and raised on pasture, "feral" and
"invasive" and has ordered they all be destroyed and farmers raising
them, declared felons. This is bringing
home to the US a similar US agribusiness attack on pigs that occurred in Haiti
to force US hogs that require huge expensive inputs of USDA commodities on the
country. The US used the threat of swine flu to destroy the special breed of
Haitian pigs, leaving Haitians without the food and income the non-demanding
little pigs provided. In the UK and
Korea and across, US agribusiness has profited from fear of foot and mouth
disease (harmless to people) arranging for military to slaughter millions of
farmers' animals.
<http://www.salem-news.com/articles/december152011/animal-disease-bd.php>
In Asia, the hoax of avian flu was
used. In both cases, the slaughters left
countries dependent on imports by the giant multinationals, and much less food
secure. Local sources were wiped out and
then laws put in place putting in place a financial bar to raising
animals. Biodiversity is wiped out and
it is biodiversity that provides a food system its resilience and security.
*Recent Presidential orders include the
seizure of all farms, all livestock, all farm equipment and all
food. How such removal of food production from the American people is
protective of them or the country is unclear.
This is a very short list of the things
the US government is doing which ensure the American people would have
little means to feed themselves if food shortages occur, or are arranged. Certainly, Michelle Obama is not following
Eleanor Roosevelt in urging people to plant home gardens. Michelle Obama has
her own organic garden but she has not once encouraged people to do the same by
growing their own organic gardens at home, or suggested that this would be a
major solution for getting local fresh food to poor children. Instead, she supports school food programs
that leave children of the poor eating USDA's GMO-commodities. For the federal program, full of noble words
and "sustainable" PR, writes itself an out - local food will be
served in schools, if it feasible.
Once Americans grasp that bankers
control industrial ag, and in 2008, manipulated the market in grain
commodities and made a fortune on starvation, and that they want a dramatic decrease
in population (while calling themselves "the Good Club"), the Irish
Famine takes on new significance, as do the mega coffins the CDC has been
storing outside Atlanta.
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/how-goldman-sachs-gambled_b_633436.html>
<http://www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net/Swine_Flu/Gates_Vaccines/gates_vaccines.html>
That the British appear to have
engineered the Irish Famine is a valuable warning that provides direction. People must provide for their own food locally
and fend off all city and state laws that are obstacles, however "sustainably"
disguised, that would deprive them of that human right . Food must be in the hands of the public.
This can be done rapidly. Nurseries only need to sell pots of mixed vegetables, as they sell pots of mixed
herbs or mixed lettuces.
Many crops such as kale, cabbage,
beets, carrots, spinach, collards, Chinese cabbages, parsley, etc. grow well
during the winter and can be grown in 5 gallon pots by anyone. 3 such pots for a family would provide
nutrients for daily soups for a family.
In a neighborhood, everyone might contribute, including meat and eggs
and any beans they may have stored. In
short order, and at little cost (perhaps $10 a pot for organic soil and three
vegetables seedlings per pot), the entire country could become food secure very
rapidly, even people in apartments. An
example of what might be grown in the pots.Pot 1: spinach, red cabbage, chard, skirted with
parsley Pot 2: broccoli, kale, collards,
skirted with purple sage Pot 3: chives
or bunching onions, lettuces, rosemary, thyme,
In apartments with little light,
turnips from the grocery can potted up (or placed in bottles so their long tail
can develop roots again), and will produce greens all winter from the
energy stored in the root. The greens simply
need to be cut when needed and will grow back.
With enough turnips grown indoors in this way, a family would have
greens regularly. This is true of beets
as well.
It is not too late to provide such
things to one's family and to make connections with neighbors around food,
so people are once again looking after each other. The Famine Plot: England's Role in Ireland's
Greatest Tragedy has provided a useful overview of how food, when controlled,
has been used to harm, and one can see numerous actions by the US government that
are worrisome. Common sense and wisdom
suggest that people and local communities must control their own food. In Russia, families are providing more than
half of the food in the country, so there is proof that the US does not need to
depend on Industrial agriculture to survive.
This decentralized food system makes a country more secure and
independent.
<http://www.naturalnews.com/037366_Russia_home_gardens_food_production.html>
Whereas the risk of depending on
globalized industrial agriculture run by elite with their own agendas, presents
obvious and severe risks.
Source: Arranging a US Famine by Byron
Steadman, 24Oct2012
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coto2admin
Comments:
Make sure you get
your City Council to drop the ordinance that prohibits planting you entire yard
with vegetables. Better yet, if you can
get them to allow chickens, pigs and cows, you will be able to continue to feed
your family until the EPA arrives to impose their new regulations.
Norb Leahy
Dunwoody GA Tea Party
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