Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Food Sovereignty In Motion
La Via Campesina in Movement... Food Sovereignty now! from La Via Campesina on Vimeo.
"According to the FAO, 800 million people suffered from hunger in 1976. Nowadays that figure exceeds 1000 million. Why? Because the system doesn't want to solve the issue of hunger." - Carlos Marentes, UTAF, USA
"A production model that has turned food into financial speculation and land into financial speculation. The Green Revolution and the transgenic revolution don't aim to eradicate the hunger of thousands of millions of human beings. They want profits for the few owners of those large companies. - Angel Strapazzone, MOCASE, Argentina
"This agriculture is an agriculture without people. It's an agriculture that doesn't accommodate nature and human beings."
- Itelvina Masioli, MST, Brazil
"It is essential to reclaim the importance of agricultural work in the world and the importance of people who dedicate themselves to agriculture and who feed humanity." - Luis Andrango, FENOCIN, Ecuador
"It's the strength of the organization that produces change into practice. Being in La Via Campesina and being organized gives me the hope I can change the world and create a new society."
- Dayana Mezzonato, MST, Brazil
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Word up. Preach it, sister.
ReplyDelete-Heather
I totally do. Probably often in an annoying, proselytizing way, but I'm working on that.
ReplyDeleteIt's hard to know how one could be otherwise when inflamed by passion on an issue. If anyone says s/he is not like this at times, it's a lie or a cover-up of an unfulfilled life.
ReplyDelete-h