Food and Faith food shortage Archives

May 7, 2021

Bursting the Bubble on Food Alarmism: Why Bill Gates is Dead Wrong

Posted 9:53am

No doubt you’ve seen ads about the need to feed the world. The claim is made that by 2050 we’ll need to increase food production by 50%. These ads come from agribusiness corporations such as ADM, Cargill and Bayer-Monsanto, and then they are parroted by the media and academics, despite the fact that there is… Read more »

December 13, 2010

“Welcome to the Nightmare, Welcome to the Hope” (Cancún # 2)

Posted 9:12am

Traveling through Cancun has been a profound and empowering experience. It was ironic, as I spent more time in Cancun, the reality of the United States became clearer. Here in the states we’re told that consumption and growth are the keys to progress. In the Global South they are told that you must work for a corporation’s workshop, and your land is no longer yours but a tool for exploitation. The chasm between reckless consumption and consumerism, and social and environmental degradation is vast and creates the actual reality in which we all live: the climate is warming at an alarming rate, world food supplies are dwindling, and the natural world is being eroded beyond the possibility of being healed.

Flooding Pakistan

Posted 2:08pm

Crops have been hit hard, so international aid is needed desperately. People can give through the Presbyterian Disaster Assistance https://www.presbyterianmission.org/give/DR000038/

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