PM Kevin Rudd and Climate Change Minister Penny Wong’s move to shut down whole sections of irrigated agriculture in Australia’s food bowl, the Murray-Darling Basin, at a time of a looming worldwide food catastrophe, is tantamount to genocide, and must be stopped.

U.S. Physical economist Lyndon LaRouche’s Executive Intelligence Review journal has documented the dire state of the world’s food supply in its April 18, 2008 edition, “Global Hunger Catastrophe: Produce Food, Not Biofuels!”:

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• For seven of the last ten years, world grain production has been below consumption, which has drawn down grain stocks to historically low levels.
• In the February issue of its Amber Waves monthly, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has warned there will soon be a shortage of 30 million tonnes of grain—enough to feed 50 million people for a year.
• The World Food Program announced in February that it has begun plans for rationing scarce food aid among 73 million people in 2008, mostly in Africa.
• Major grain exporting countries have either banned or limited exports of rice and wheat, in order to guarantee their own supplies.
• Riots over food shortages have broken out in 33 nations in Africa, Asia and South America; in Haiti the rioters chanted, “We are hungry” as they stormed the presidential palace.

In this context, government policies in Australia, Europe and the United States, to either cut back food production, or subsidise the diversion of precious grains into the production of “biofuels”, in the name of the scientific fraud of climate change, is far worse than incompetence—it can only be called genocide, under the Nuremberg code of “knew, or should have known” the consequence of their actions.

On April 14, Lyndon LaRouche issued guidelines for emergency action to respond to this crisis:

• Every nation must have the right to self-defence against famine, contrary to the genocidal free trade dictates that have been imposed by the IMF and World Bank. This means the right to carry out export controls, nation-to-nation agreements, and whatever price-fixing measures which may be required to guarantee sufficient food to its people.
• A coalition of nations must come together to immediately put measures into effect that will increase food production, and make it available to countries in dire need.
• The biofuel policy pushed by British agent Al Gore must immediately be reversed. This policy is currently wresting food from the mouths of the poor, by using up to 12 percent of the world’s corn harvest, and a large portion of wheat crop as well, as fodder for wasteful, inherently uneconomical biofuels. Such a policy, coming on top of the British East India-style policy of free trade and market-based production, means inevitable mass death.

Read “Famine: The British Genocidal Food Policy”, which shows that today's famine crisis was caused by agriculture policy modelled on that of the British East India Company, here.