Howdaya Handle a Billion Hungry Men?

"With kid gloves," comes to mind, but it is not the likely answer.

A billion--or a thousand million, depending on your counting system--people are hungry, as defined by the U.N. World Food Program: those who have a diet of less than 1000 calories a day, one infers after searching the web for the minimum daily requirement.

OmyGod! Overpopulation!

Well, no: "According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the world already produces enough food to feed every child, woman and man and could feed 12 billion people, or double the current world population,” states the Wikipedia entry on malnutrition.

Nevertheless, a June 12th Reuters article was headlined "U.N. warns of catastrophe as hungry people top one billion."

Interestingly, on the same Blacklistednews "breaking headlines" page we find this: "Peak Soil Investment: This Quiet Land Grab is Just Beginning," an article originally published in Wall Street Pit. The article strongly promotes agricultural land--not commodities themselves--as an excellent investment opportunity, using the old "they aren't making any more of it" rationale for land investment.

Both these articles are drawn directly from Old Paradigm thinking. The former advocates bringing food to people at great distance and for great cost, rather than recognizing the reality that people should be permitted to go where the food is or can be produced on a scale adequate to feed families. The latter article views farmland itself as a commodity, something to be exploited as a capital good for industry, rather than recognize that arable land widely distributed is the basis of any healthy society. Today's societies are sick--perhaps terminally ill--, but the obvious remedy is not on any governmental drawing board.

Here's a remedy that will work for those families who still have the good fortune to acquire a bit of arable land and have capital sufficient to create a viable homestead: The Have-More Plan. I have seen many, many books on homestead self-sufficiency, and this one is my favorite. It can be viewed at this Scribd location.

It doesn't require vast acreage to produce good, healthy food, and if families were larger and learned to work together with other families in their area, hunger could be greatly reduced. Those in the West would once more be able to develop societies that were people-centered rather than profit-centered, paced in sync with the natural world rather than at war with it.

Hunger is a result of mismanagement as well as of natural disaster. Those who decide that they wish to manage their own lives rather than be at the mercy of the globalist overlords will recognize that food self-sufficiency is paramount to their game plan and will then move to secure it buy taking the appropriate steps.

Don't wait to get "handled." Don't wait for speculators and transnational corporate giants to buy up all the land worth having.