In a Huffington Post article titled "US Senate, Bill Gates Give Planet a Middle Finger for Earth Day," Jill Richardson, the founder of La Vida Locavore writes that:
"A broad coalition including Bill Gates, Tim Geithner, the US State Department, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the World Bank, and others have a plan to help the world's hungry by working in opposition to the recommendations of scientists worldwide, including the findings of a report commissioned by the World Bank and the UN. Ironically, they chose Earth Day to deliver this flaming bag of poop on Africa's doorstep.
"Back in 2008, the World Bank and the UN commissioned IAASTD report issued its findings: Go organic. The report...examined how we can best use the most current science to feed our world. The over 400 scientists involved agreed that an agroecological approach...is the best way to feed the world, provide employment in the agricultural sector, and care for the earth. They specifically rejected biotechnology...as the solution to global hunger....
"The U.S. government...is calling for a second Green Revolution. The first Green Revolution relied on toxic chemicals like DDT and traditionally bred hybrid seeds to increase crop yields in the developing world, notably in Mexico and India. In the decades since, we've seen a simultaneous rise in per capita food production and a rise in hunger....
"Yet, today the Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing, discussing plans to deliver biotechnology, fertilizer, and other hallmarks of industrial ag to Africa. USAID head Rajiv Shah went so far as to refer to USAID efforts to expand biotechnology around the world as "sustainable." (This is far from true, as shown by the Union of Concerned Scientists' report Failure to Yield....
You can read the complete article here.
"A broad coalition including Bill Gates, Tim Geithner, the US State Department, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the World Bank, and others have a plan to help the world's hungry by working in opposition to the recommendations of scientists worldwide, including the findings of a report commissioned by the World Bank and the UN. Ironically, they chose Earth Day to deliver this flaming bag of poop on Africa's doorstep.
"Back in 2008, the World Bank and the UN commissioned IAASTD report issued its findings: Go organic. The report...examined how we can best use the most current science to feed our world. The over 400 scientists involved agreed that an agroecological approach...is the best way to feed the world, provide employment in the agricultural sector, and care for the earth. They specifically rejected biotechnology...as the solution to global hunger....
"The U.S. government...is calling for a second Green Revolution. The first Green Revolution relied on toxic chemicals like DDT and traditionally bred hybrid seeds to increase crop yields in the developing world, notably in Mexico and India. In the decades since, we've seen a simultaneous rise in per capita food production and a rise in hunger....
"Yet, today the Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing, discussing plans to deliver biotechnology, fertilizer, and other hallmarks of industrial ag to Africa. USAID head Rajiv Shah went so far as to refer to USAID efforts to expand biotechnology around the world as "sustainable." (This is far from true, as shown by the Union of Concerned Scientists' report Failure to Yield....
You can read the complete article here.
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