We take their crops to feed our animals and then try to dictate what they should eat
This is used as a means of generating money to pay back the interest on loans that were practically forced on these countries in the first place.
Often these crops (eg, maize, soya) are fed to the developed world’s farm animals, which are then eaten by the rich world’s human population: thus the poverty-stricken country that has sacrificed the potential to grow useful crops for its own desperately needy gets no benefit at all from the crop.
According to research published in the US recently, meat and dairy are deemed essential for the mental and physical development of severely malnourished children.
Such bitter irony. We remove their ability to grow their own food, then we tell them to eat what we want them to eat. This is global politics at its most cynical and grotesque.
Study after study has shown that a well-balanced and varied vegetarian diet is far healthier than a meat-based one and that, statistically, vegetarians live longer than meat-eaters. Alternative research has shown that feeding the world’s population a vegetarian diet is possible. It seems to make sense in a world where a meat-based strategy is such an abject failure.
Gerry Boland
Derreenadouglas
Keadue
Co Roscommon
