{"id":26506,"date":"2010-07-05T07:44:03","date_gmt":"2010-07-05T07:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/?p=26506"},"modified":"2010-07-05T07:44:03","modified_gmt":"2010-07-05T07:44:03","slug":"article_21161","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/article_21161\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Food Problems Are About Justice Not Scarcity"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 1969, as I tried to grasp the root causes of hunger, I struggled to absorb the shocking picture my simple research was uncovering: While world food experts cried “scarcity,” in truth we bright humans were-and still are-creating hunger out of plenty. We’d turned our food system into a scarcity-creating machine, and were undermining the Earth’s food-producing potential, too.<\/p>\n

I’ll make a one-page handout, I thought. I’ll pin it up here and there and we’ll all catch on, won’t we? For no one would do such a crazy thing, if they only knew.<\/p>\n

My handout became a book, Diet for a Small Planet, which showed how our newly emerging diet-based on grain-fed meat produced with chemical inputs-reflects neither our bodies’ needs, nor what the Earth can sustain.<\/p>\n

That was then.<\/p>\n

Today, hunger’s toll breaks all records, and we’re now facing another huge downside to our reductive, extractive approach to farming: a warming climate. My daughter, Anna Lapp\u00e9, has just released Diet for a Hot Planet, which continues the conversation I helped to start. She shows how much our global food system now drives the climate crisis-even more than transportation.<\/p>\n

I’m beyond proud. It’s a fabulous book (moms have a right to say what we think), shocking and empowering at once. And in June the U.N. Environment Programme released a report <\/a>backing up her message, calling out industrial agriculture, particularly large-scale livestock production, as among the world’s most energy-intensive and environmentally destructive industries. Among the UNEP’s recommendations? We individuals adopt plant-centered diets to lower our own carbon “foodprints.”<\/p>\n

The report also highlights how agriculture itself can be part of the solution: Ecological farming actually binds carbon in the soil, and its abundant crop varieties can boost biodiversity. So it’s not agriculture per se, but a certain kind of agriculture, that threatens our planet (and our health).<\/p>\n

I could never have imagined, writing my little handout 40 years ago, that today I’d be living in a world in which earth-friendly, hunger-ending farming is proving its potential from Ethiopia to Brazil to India to the U.S.-but where citizens still go along with policies spreading hunger and the destructive, corporate-controlled industrial farming that helps to cause it.<\/p>\n

Clearly, we have to dig much deeper. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Frances Moore Lapp\u00e9 welcomes the recent report, and reminds us that global food problems are about justice, not scarcity. 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