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What we can do about skyrocketing food prices

No Corps | 12.04.2008 16:12

We in the U.K. can do our share to counter skyrocketing grain prices by cutting grain consumption ourselves.

By cutting our intake of rice, wheat and corn in the developed world, we can leave more for those who really need it. We can drop rice, bread and corn products and eat potatoes, yams vegetables and fruits instead.

And while we cut out grains, we can also work to cut out the main cause of hunger in our world-capitalism, and replace it with economic democracy.

No Corps
- Homepage: http://www.prout.org/

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Grain ? - surely meat and dairy !

12.04.2008 18:02


Surely, the Number 1 thing we can do is to cut out meat and dairy products rather than grain.

The Meat and Dairy industry produce more greenhouse gasses than the entire transport sector - a vegan in a V8 Range Rover is doing less harm to the planet than a meat eater on a bicycle.

it takes 16 kg of veg protein to make 1 kg of meat protein - cut out meat and dairy - save millions in taxpayers subsidies for these products, save billions in taxes for the NHS which are used to treat the heart disease and cancer caused by this products and then HAVE NO GLOBAL FOOD SHORTAGE, because soya and grains can be used to feed humans instead of farm animals.

(plus eat with a clear conscience)

Logical


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there are other reasons for carefully considering what you eat

12.04.2008 19:31

don't forget climate change. it's no good being vegan if much of the food you're eating has been air freighted or has been shipped from the other side of the world.
i'm always unimpressed by those apparently caring people who obsessively drink gallons of tea daily with soya milk. if the soya isn't GM then it's most likely come from cleared rainforest in brazil. think too of the thousands of food miles it must have travelled cos soya doesn't grow in temperate regions. also ask yourself, do you really need to be drinking hot drinks at all as an electric kettle is likely to be the appliance that uses most electricity in your home. 10 cuppas boiled for say 5 mins each * 3KW *0.43 kgCO2/KWH produces about 1.5 kg CO2 each day. by comparison, consider that a small car emits about 1/4 to a 1/3 kg CO2/km driven. stop eating all rice. not only are you robbing poorer people of the world of their staple food thus driving prices even higher but also it too has to be shipped thousands of miles. rice growing in paddy fields produces a lot of methane, same as raising cattle does and methane is 20 x as powerful a greenhouse gas as CO2. Stick to as much british grown fruit and veg as possible. potatoes are easily grown in our climate and are a cheap source of complex carbs and can be used to bulk up your diet.

vaguely vegan


Notice "meat and Dairy" are not included in my list of alternatives

13.04.2008 16:16

Which can mean only one thing-cut grain consumption IN ADDITION TO meat and dairy products. Then there will be more grain available to those who REALLY NEED IT:

No Corps
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get stuffed..

13.04.2008 19:24

on PRANA! yes, prana. Just breathe and get all the nutrients you need :)
By the way, as I understand it, you have to practice yoga and meditation for about twenty years first, but with patience and chanting we will save the world.

delia smith


The solution is surely...

14.04.2008 11:27

...cannibalism. ph ph ph ph

Dr Lecter