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Hope's Edge by Frances Moore Lappe and Anna Lappe

Books Hope's Edge, by Frances Moore Lappe and her daughter Anna Lappe, (Putnam, NY, 2002) include economic, political, psychological, health, environmental, cultural and scientific relationships between plants and human society. This book calls forth, urging us, while still hopeful, to reclaim our democracy for the good of humanity as a whole. It reminds us that we are all connected to each other in this vast world of life and that we are far from the source, the less aware we become. It reveals how corporate global capitalism does not value individuals or communities. This book contributes to accounts from around the world about the emergence of hope-driven action. These brave and motivated groups are experimenting with different approaches to healing the planet, and themselves in the process; by creating a community and bringing our minds and ideas together to the best way to have a symbiotic relationship with nature. They break free from the "traps of global thinking", networking, and brainstorming for innovative solutions to sustainable alternatives to cold and destructive methods of corporate global capitalism. These people serve as role models for all of us, stepping up to the plate, making choices, changing themselves and their ways, and consciously creating the life they want by organizing, planning, and working toward a common goal. This group is a people of choice not just passive users.

UN food rates estimate that the population of the planet is only looking proportionally as far as food is available for people to go, but there are people who request it differently. The author of this book, with extensive reference and thirty years of research, claims that nature is abundant, and that there is no shortage of food, except for misuse of resources and strategies. They point out that the UN does not take into account their wild foods gathered around the world, mini gardens, or the fact that ½ beans in the world (no amount of water, 2,500 gallons per pound of hamburger, are within 30 years 2 / 3 worlds facing water shortage / crisis, no less) fed to slaughter bound livestock. Livestock feed is a poor economy - we invest a large amount of cereal protein (1,700 calories) to feed livestock, which provides only 400 calories of meat. That is not a very good investment when half the world is suffering; while one out of every six of us starves to death! I think it makes someone rich. There are other prices we pay for large-scale cattle slaughter, such as: environmental destruction - a major contributor to soil erosion (85% of livestock directly related to livestock farming) (in the last 40 years worldwide, 1/3 of the land of food we're getting worse, and the top soil is scraping 30 times faster than it was created), digestion of cows releases methane gas into the air; a major contributor to global warming trends, polluting water supply more than any other industry combined, livestock grazing has been the # 1 cause of desertification (1.5 acres of rainforest cleared PER SECOND to make grazing lands), as well as bad fossil fuel investment: producing one pound of steak, requires 20,000 calories of fossil fuel, and only returns 500 calories of energy.

Then there's the price we pay for eating meat in our health, both physically and mentally. The chemicals and pesticides we avoid from the fatty tissues of animals that consume them, become more concentrated (called "bio-amplification") and the growth hormone residues and antibiotics that are pumped out can cause cancer, heart disease, and other health problems. The American Medical Association has called on livestock manufacturers to stop the regular addition of antibiotics to all livestock, as abuse has led to the creation of drug-resistant bacterial strains. There is no label required to inform the client of the hormone that causes cancer. Despite the fact that so many people try to make less than two dollars a day, Americans spend 1/9 of their health care on obesity-related issues (created in part by a high-fat / fast-food diet), and 1/12 of that money on the diabetes epidemic ( made part of a high sugar / fast food diet). These companies do not value human life.

"There is not enough food!", Scary steel companies say, "If you use our fertilizers, your plants will grow faster, produce more." Like cracked merchants, they give free steel fertilizers. When, as the soil becomes worse than steel, it requires additional fertilizers, which of course the fertilizer companies no longer provide for free; actually they keep raising that price. Nitrogen fertilizers have increased the rate of nitrates worldwide over the last 200 years. The run caused the ocean to "die" in the area. Only in the US, ¼ of drinking wells contain nitrates above safety standards. These companies do not value human life.

The same is true of pesticides. Free pesticides eventually kill "good" bugs too. This interferes with good natural balance: bugs, fungi, etc. Then the pesticides are no longer free. In addition, pests develop, making pesticides useless. The US alone consumes 1.2 billion pounds of pesticides every year! In addition to environmental damage, pesticides cause 200,000 deaths and 3 million poisonings a year! Due in part to pesticides, farmers' suicide rates are three times greater than that of the general population. In Andhra Pradesh, India 300 farmers have committed suicide, many by drinking pesticides that damage them. These companies do not value human life.

What about genetic engineering food? Did you know that about 70% of the foods on our wholesale shelves contain GMOs? No? It's because they don't have to tell us! So, our kids and we are guinea pigs? GE disrupts the ecosystem, introduces new allergens, and creates a new strain of "super resistant pests". These companies do not value human life.

Have you ever noticed how many small businesses these companies do not appreciate the human life that is creeping out of existence? Have you ever seen how companies that do not value human life now take over government control systems before? Public schools are a place for advertising, and their cafes are left to sell fast food chains. Prison was privatized; there's been a lot of money there since the "War on Drugs". 2/3 of the inmates are there for nonviolent crimes. Water is about to be privatized. Big business and government are two powerful forces united. Businesses include pockets of politicians, and keep corrupt people in office, which in turn loosens the law and loosens regulations and restrictions to companies, while giving them subsidies derived from our taxes.

Not only are they 'buying' everyone; they also dominate the media, which is why we rarely hear about these issues. In fact, journalists will discuss stories they have explored on topics that reveal the public's best interests on a variety of issues that have been fired, deprived, vandalized, or deteriorated. In addition, advertising is a giant. Have you ever noticed how these companies do not appreciate human life uniting with one another? A number of companies are now monopolizing every sector of our economy. Coke is Africa's largest employer, and every five hours McDonald's is open somewhere. Ten multinational companies control ½ US food and beverage sales. Only five agrochemical companies own all the seed patents. Of these companies, Monsanto owns 85% of the GE market. What's up with the seed patent !!! They are working on the seeds produced by the plants to become sterile, cultivating a dependence on the seed company, forcing farmers to buy seeds every year!

What's going on here under our nose? Is Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" manipulated? We're not just users, we're human! If we lose our voice on issues of land, seed, credit, trade, costs, worker care, and food security we will lose our choice! We are consumers, we should say what we want to buy, methods used to bring it to us, tests used, health / safety regulations, and so on.

Lappe describes food as "the most basic necessity and common bond to one another". This is in line with the humanistic psychological theory of humanoid theorist Abraham Maslow on the "hierarchy of needs", food and water are the needs of the lower stairs & # 39; Maslow. They are basic needs that must be met in order to move up the ladder to happiness and ultimately self-realization. When we realize that we need to voice and respect ourselves and others, we find the confidence we need to begin to change, to bring about personal growth, which enables us to see bigger changes that we could never understand.

Hope's Edge gather inspiring examples around the world about people organizing and creating communities, solutions, and alternatives to globalization and its negative effects on humanity.

The Schoolyard Edible What school did a hundred years ago is replicating across the US. Students design, plant, tend, harvest, and prepare vegetables for each other. Mathematics, science, and English curriculum requirements are met during the process. It changes the way children look at the world, generating confidence and awareness of tomorrow's leadership relationships.

Prison Organic Pharmacies and Greenhouses In the United States, 10,000 people have been involved so far. A 20-year study of 300 residents found that they were unlikely to return to prison. Residents benefit from positive experiences, including experiences that fulfill people's desire to be useful, to have meaning in life. Every six months in prison contributes 20,000 pounds of food to their community.

Landless Workers' Movement - MST (Movimento Dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terre) from Brazil. Consisting of ½ million members, it has settled ¼ million families in the desert for the last 16 years. In the process, thousands were killed, and thousands more were injured, imprisoned, abused, or received death threats. Land legally designated to the unregistered by the government revised constitution still needs to be "raised" from the previous large landowner. MST is doing the government work for them because they will not do it themselves. Although Brazil is the world's leading exporter of food, 10,000 children starve each year. When these families finally owned the land again, they organically and collectively planted it, lived on it, and bought other services, goods made there. MST recognizes that hunger, health, gender, education, leadership, philosophy, are relevant. They teach their youth to question, and not just accept it as they are and cannot be changed, by working together, they can create the world they want.

Belo Horizonte (Beautiful Horizon), Brazil Here city decided to make it a national right to food security! They believe that even those who are too poor to be consumers are still citizens. This "new social mentality" believes that quality food is available to all benefits. They follow: give sellers the best sales space at high prices as long as the seller agrees to sell below the market price, cut the middle man, serve four nutritious meals a day at a city school, serving 4,000 meals a day at half the market price of a restaurant in city ​​(and nothing proves that they are poor to eat there), connects small, local, organic farmers with bulk buyers such as hospitals, schools and restaurants, provides seeds and seedlings, and educates the public on environmentally friendly agriculture, and it supports community gardens and schools.

Grameen ("village") Bank, Bangladesh It started with an economics teacher named Muhammad Yunus when he saw the money-making trap of the poor. He lent $ 27 to 42 people, and that was enough to free them from money lenders. The strategy is to do the opposite of what all other banks do / don't lend to the poor without collateral (Only 2% of the world has "credit"). The system is called "micro credit" and is now being replicated in more than 58 countries.

Green Belt Movement, Nairobi The forests here have lost less than 5% of what they have done. The Belt Green Food Safety Program believes that people will be able to defend themselves when they become aware of everything. By actively combating soil erosion and the resulting famine, it has grown more than 20 million native trees over the last 20 years.

Fair Trading Manufacturers are promised fair prices for their goods "as a way to end poverty and power at the root of hunger". Most people who earn less than two dollars a day are small farmers. A fair trade agreement pays 60% to farmers six months in advance so that the farmers have the money to work with and carry out their plans.

Farm Supported Community The idea came from Germany, Switzerland, and Japan in the 1960s. Today there are more than 3,000 throughout the US. At the beginning of each year members pay $ 400 a year / or work for the crop, so their organic produce is delivered to them at 80% of retail prices.

"Grow Biointensive" Agriculture Used in over 100 countries; it combines traditional wisdom with modern science.



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