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Submitted by Patricia Jones (not verified) on 29 March, 2008 - 22:24.

The food debate is definitely a good place to start to identify openly some of the imbalances concerning abject poverty and exploitation of the poor, with the greed, lack of compassion and lack of justice internationally,
which is driven by the international corporates.
I see many issues within issues:- one being the right of small farmers to farm in their traditional manner, and having the personal/communal power to choose their own economic destinations.
Another important issue is the nutritional value of the food being pedalled by the Corporates.
Under the so-called developed method of food production practised by most of the larger food producers, the food being grown and sold through corporate distributers for the most part does not come anywhere near to meeting the nutritional requirements of the human body if good health is to be the accepted outcome.
Small farmers, and their traditional methods of farming, (either without or with minimal use of artificial fertilisers and toxic chemicals)have traditionally produced better nutritional results.
Banning politics and corporates from any role in food, ie food production/food distribution/food sales would clear the way to address the need to get JUSTICE, HEALTH and COMPASSION to be the only criteria for food production internationally.
Let's see what a difference could be made to to key concerns above, if power and greed was removed!!
Fat chance, but we have to start with spreading the awareness.

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