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Citizens Electoral Council of Australia

Media Release  31st of December 2011

Craig Isherwood‚ National Secretary
PO Box 376‚ COBURG‚ VIC 3058
Phone: 03 9354 0544 Fax: 03 9354 0166
Email: cec@cecaust.com.au
Website: http://cec.cecaust.com.au
 

LaRouche: Cancel the British imperial food control laws—boost food production!

The following emergency statement on food production was issued yesterday by the Lyndon LaRouche Political Action Committee.

“What you have to do to solve the food problem is very simple: You have to eliminate the British-centered control, over food production and distribution.” Lyndon LaRouche said this Wednesday, in the LPACTV Weekly Report, referring to the present agriculture production breakdown and worsening food shortages. “If you just take those laws that are on the books now, cancel them! And you automatically will have a surge in food production.”

The set of U.S. laws suppressing food production, ruining family farming, and creating shortages and conditions for famine, include these major acts: the treaty-membership in the World Trade Organization (begun in 1995); the 2005 Federal mandate for bio-fuels; the 1970 Plant Variety Protection Act (allowing private patenting of plant improvements), among others. The impact of these is augmented by the non-enforcement of anti-trust laws; as well as the 1999 elimination of the Glass-Steagall Act, and the funding cuts in NASA, the Army Corps of Engineers, the Bureau of Reclamation, and other programs to promote discoveries and enhance Earth resources for agriculture.

Look at a few snapshots of today's farm chaos and food shortages in terms of impact of allowing these laws to remain in effect.

—WTO—

The WTO impact is conveyed in the 1988 slogan: “One World, One Market” of the Montreal summit of its predecessor, the UN General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, Agriculture Round, out of which the WTO was formed.

* The U.S. and all member nations agree to eliminate food reserves, tariffs on food imports and exports, and similar food-security measures, under the imperial rationalization that these are “trade distorting.” The U.S. no longer keeps any food in reserve in its Commodity Credit Corporation system, still on the books, but empty.

In turn, trade and food processing have come to be monopolized by a tight set of cartel companies, dominating international food flows, and even domestic trade in many nations.

A handful of companies dominates over 80 percent of grains traded worldwide: Cargill, Bunge, Louis Dreyfus, ADM, and a few others. The last vestiges of national-interest institutions, serving farmers and/or consumers, have been taken down. In Australia, in the last two years, Cargill took over the wheat marketing system of the Australian Wheat Board, the once nation-serving facility, set up to represent farmers. In Canada, as of Aug. 1, 2012, the Canadian Wheat Board is to be shut down on orders of the Federal government. In Canada right now, only four companies control 72 percent of all the grain elevators.

* The U.S. and all member nations agree to respect the unlawful rights of a handful of agro-chemical companies to declare patent rights and issue demands for license-fees over crop seeds. The WTO enforces this under its “intellectual property rights” rules. The U.S.—where patenting food seeds was never permitted—passed insane laws to approve it, beginning with the Plant Variety Protection Act of 1970.

Monsanto/Cargill, BASF, Syngenta, DuPont/Pioneer, Dow, Bayer CropScience, now exert monopoly control over supplies of high-yielding, genetically-modified corn, soy, and other seed supplies. The cartel controls and degrades plantlife research.

For example, thanks to these cartel companies—interlocked with British Empire financial and political power, decades went by without the development of reserve strains of wheat resistant to stem rust and other blights. Now, for example, the UG99 wheat rust—first appearing in Uganda in 1999, and now spread eastward as far as Iran, has no effective counter-strain to put in use. This is the purpose of the monopolistic seed system.

—Biofuels Mandate Law—

In the mid-2000s, the United States, nations of Europe, and other nations began passing insane laws to mandate the annual volume of fuel which must come from foodstocks diverted to fuel—corn-ethanol, soy-diesel, canola-diesel, wheat-ethanol, palm-diesel, etc. For example, in the United States, the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (PL 109-58) set compulsory levels for annual biofuels.

In the U.S. at present, nearly 40 percent of the entire corn harvest is going into ethanol. For the week ending Dec. 2, an all-time record volume of corn ethanol was produced in the U.S.—a rate of 40.068 million gallons a day (954,000 barrels a day). Corn ethanol now accounts for about 11.5% of U.S. gasoline usage. The largest distillers include Cargill and ADM.

As LaRouche said Dec. 28, this system is genocide.

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