Oil-Dependence Predicts Famine

by Mary-Sue Haliburton
Pure Energy Systems News
Copyright © 2005

Source: CountryHorizons.com (Permission pending)

The specter of famine arises from a system of agriculture that has become dependent on the artificially-produced fertilizers. This is not a surprising development, as these products have been heavily marketed, and all agricultural colleges teach this system to students expected to implement these principles on their farms.

However, organic and biodynamic farming systems specifically exclude use of these NPK products. Instead, the emphasis is on replacing depleted trace minerals, and biodynamicists also employ subtle energies to foster healthy growth. (Ref.)

When the commercial products derived from fuels become unavailable or are priced out of the market, turning back to the traditional methods could not only ensure continuation of food production, but would also improve the food itself, especially its nutritional and keeping qualities. I have noticed that while chemically-produced carrots go moldy within weeks of being put in the refrigerator, organic carrots in the same conditions grow small root-hairs and keep themselves alive, resisting mould infection for months longer.

Growing plants exclusively with NPK forces growth, but leaves plants without natural defenses. Continuing to grow them on soils depleted of trace minerals results in plants vulnerable to insect and fungal attack, which are then the excuse to apply more chemicals, causing death of the symbiotic micro-organisms which should colonize the roots and aid in transport of nutrients. Crops can take up only those minerals which are actually present in the soil, and as levels decline, so does the quality of the food. People must then eat more to gain the same level of benefit.

Being denied agri-chem products drove Cuba into organic farming in a big way. (Ref.) The end result was a much healthier population and lower overall medical expenses.

So, there could be a silver lining even in this storm cloud, but only if society is able to wrestle Goliath politically.

If the looming famine is not to decimate humanity, the public must firmly and loudly support the rights of farmers to use organic methods without interference. Even more crucial is the inalienable right of the farmer to save seed. Both of these wise and essential ancient practices are under threat from the chemical industry, which wants a complete monopoly on seed sales, and no competition from old-fashioned seeds.

Big companies especially don’t want farmers to stop buying their products, and therefore regularly attack and vilify alternative methods, attempting even to hijack the definition of “organic” to include methods and chemicals which are anathema to the organic movement. In contrast, “organic” was developed to mean that life-friendly inputs and energies were the only kind utilized throughout the growing, harvesting and shipping stages of the food business.

Because of legal decisions in favor of big business, this seed-saving has been mowed down in the courts. (Ref.) What is needed now is new right-to-farm laws around the world which will enshrine seed-saving as a universal human right.

Not to do this invites the famine disaster, as the large companies controlling hybrid and genetically-modified seed want to include the “terminator gene” in their products. These gene means that the seed produced will be non-viable, so that farmers cannot “steal the company’s intellectual property” which is how Monsanto views natural seed-saving. It is clear that many farmers will not be able to afford to buy new seed every year, and will therefore lose their land. This land will then be owned by the chemical giants, to be wrung out by forced-growth farming with more and more chemicals until the land is too toxic even for this to succeed.

Even if the proprietary gene “jumped” into a farmer’s crop due to wild-card environmental factors such as wind, birds landing in the field, or seed falling from a passing farm vehicle, the farmer in question is still regarded as a thief, just as if he’d gone out and stolen seed from someone else’s land.

It is time to restore the time-honored, successful farming by nature’s methods – which are proven successful from time immemorial. After all, the proof is that the human race has survived for who knows how many millennia without chemical fertilizers or pesticides.

We do not know if we will survive the era of the terminator gene. Engineered genes can even jump from food eaten to cells in the body of the consumer. (Ref.) Do we need this terminator gene in our bodies? Do we want it?

I think not!

But it’s coming, unless humanity bands together to stop this from being deployed against us.

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REFERENCES

• <http://www.acresusa.com/toolbox/articles.htm> Several links to articles about balanced minerals, broadcasting to plants, etc.
• <http://www.foodfirst.org/issues/cubanag> Books, videos and DVDs explore how "Cuba turned inward to self-reliance. Sustainable agriculture, organic farming, urban gardens, smaller farms, animal traction, and biological pest control are all part of the new Cuban agriculture."
• In the infamous Percy Schmeiser vs. Monsanto case the biotech giant won a partial victory. <http://nelsonfarm.net/editorletts.htm> <http://www.saynotogmos.org/farmers.htm>
  <http://archives.foodsafetynetwork.ca/agnet/2004/5-2003/agnet_may_21-2.htm >
• <www.seedsofdeception.com> Experiment showing gene transfer from food to gut included in Jeffrey Smith’s powerful book. Author details of research kept secret from the public, noting manipulation of scientists not even allowed to analyze the documentation properly before another new GMO is rubber-stamped as “safe” for human consumption.

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