FOOD WARS

NEWS UPDATE, Vitamin Cartel Busted

"Food is a weapon, the poor hope you rich pigs choke on it!"


This was a sign at a recent demonstration against the food wars.
Yes, food is a weapon of devastating proportions.
Fundamentally, the patterns of land ownership profoundly affects both production and distribution of food. The concentration of ownership in so few hands is the basis of wealth and it's consequence, poverty. Based on people's relationship to the land, people fall into five major classes:
  1. LANDLORDS. They do not work the land themselves, but sometimes supervise the work. Instead they hire labor or let the land to sharecroppers.
  2. RICH PEASANTS. They work in the fields but have more land than they can cultivate alone. They gain most of their income from land they cultivate with hired labor or sharecroppers.
  3. MIDDLE PEASANTS. The classic self-sufficient small farmer. They earn their livings mainly by working their own land, though at times they may work for others or hire others to work for them.
  4. POOR PEASANTS. They own a little land, but not enough to support themselves. They earn their livings mainly by working as sharecroppers or wage earners.
  5. LANDLESS LABORERS. They do not own any land except sometimes their house site. Lacking tools, equiptment or livestock, they seldom can work as sharecroppers, and must depend upon wages for their livelihoods. In what class do you stand?
Parable of the "Workers in the Vineyard"
Parable of the"Tennants in the Vineyard"
"Without Good Land There Is No Security". The Food Wars have many battlefronts:

Battlefronts

Sorry, Under Lots Of Construction
  1. BLOCKADES
    1. Ramsey Clark, re: Blockades
    2. Ag Research, JerusalemPalestinian Occupation
  2. HUNGER
    1. World Hunger Relief Organizations, etc.
    2. Hunger Web
    3. Galway Riot
    4. Global Bioethics
  3. AG. DEV. FUNDING
    1. IMF
    2. World Bank
    3. USDA
  4. AG. EQUIPTMENT
    1. Caterpillar
    2. John Deere
    3. DTN Ag Iron
    4. Frasier Ag Equipment, Scotland
  5. FOOD CARTELS
    1. Cargill Grain
    2. Continental Grain
    3. Conagra
    4. IBP Meat Packing
  6. COMMODITY MARKETS
    1. Chicago Board of Trade
    2. Chicago Mercantile Exchange
    3. New York Coffee, Sugar, Cocoa Exchange
    4. New York Mercantile Exchange
    5. Minneapolis Grain Exchange
    6. New York Cotton Exchange
    7. Kansas City Board Of Trade
    8. Mid America Exchange
    9. Vegetable Markets & Ag Links
    10. DTN Ag Market Info
  7. STOCK MARKETS
    1. New York Stock Exchange
    2. Amer.Stock Exchange
    3. NASDAQ
    4. List of Exchanges
  8. STOCKS
    1. Wall Street Journal
    2. Archer Daniels Midland
    3. ADM INDICTMENT NEWS UPDATE
    4. RJR
    5. Kelloggs
  9. FOOD DISTRIBUTION
    1. UNICEF
    2. Red Cross
    3. Salvation Army
    4. Calif. Emerg. Foodlink
    5. Help Amer. People Prosper Yearly
    6. Food Bank Distrib.
    7. Ind. Food Distrib. Analysis
    8. Food Distrib. Programs
    9. USDA Child Nutrition
    10. Food Bank Info
    11. Canadian Food Brokers Assoc.
    12. Food Distrib. in Italy
    13. CCET Food Distrib., Russia
    14. Feeding Rwandans
  10. AG. SEED
    1. Agridiversity Seed List and Links
    2. Ag Seed Lists, links including Weed War Links
  11. ENVIRONMENTAL
    1. Nature Conservancy
    2. Sierra Club
    3. Cultural Survival
    4. Vegan Pages
  12. LABOR
    1. United Farm Workers
Agricultural Perspectives
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July 31, 1996. Updated Bimonthly