Food Not Bombs global day of action to end hunger
and protest corporate domination of our food.
International Day of Action Against McDonald's Saturday, October 16, 2010
(down load sample flyer to promote your action )
Food Not Bombs will be sharing free vegan meals outside local McDonald's
stores all over the globe on World Food Day, October 16, 2010. ( Also
called The International Day of Action Against McDonald's ) Corporate
domination of our food is increasing world hunger and malnutrition. One
in six people do not get enough food to be healthy. Over a billion
people go hungry every month. The United Nations reports that 25,000
people around the world die from hunger related causes every day.
Food Not Bombs volunteers proposed this action during the gathering in Monterrey, Mexico in May 2010.
Corporate control and greed is at the root of the global crisis of
hunger blocking popular efforts address climate change, promoting the
production genetically engineered organisms for food and withholding
access to food to drive up prices. Food Not Bombs started marking
World Food Day by sharing free vegan burgers out side McDonald's in
solidarity with the McLibel legal case when McDonald's took Helen Steel
and Dave Morris to trial claiming their flyer "What's Wrong With
McDonald's" was inaccurate. In 1985 they launched the The International
Day of Action Against McDonald's , which has been held on October 16th
ever since. Food Not Bombs groups joined their effort and have shared
vegan food outside of hundreds of McDonald's shops around the world
every year. The leaflet attacked almost all aspects of the corporation's
business, accusing them of exploiting children with advertising,
promoting an unhealthy diet, exploiting their staff and being
responsible for environmental damage and ill treatment of animals. Food
Not Bombs volunteers have been handing out the flyer at many of their
meals since 1985. A copy can be down loaded from the Food Not Bombs
website.
McDonald's is a symbol of what is wrong with corporate control of our
food. The price of food is increasing. Food prices are set to rise as
much as 40% over the coming decade amid growing demand from emerging
markets and for biofuel production, according to a United Nations report
published in June 2010 which warns of rising hunger and food insecurity.
Wheat prices have jumped by more than 50 percent since June 2010. Rice
prices are expected to stay at their current high level due to drought
and flooding in India and the Philippines. The high price of rice has
had a devastating effect on poorer parts of the world that rely on the
grain for food.
'It is safe to say that the rice price is not going back to $300 per ton
any time soon and is likely to remain around $600 in the near term,'
Samarendu Mohanty, a senior economist at the International Rice Research
Institute, said in a report to be published today, without citing a
definite time frame.
Corporate domination of food and agriculture is causing hunger to
increase. From the rapid increase in the cost of seeds 90 percent of which
are controlled by Monsanto, DuPont, Dow Chemical, Syngenta, BASF and
Bayer CropScience. more than 90 percent of soybeans and more than 80
percent of the corn grown in the United States are genetically
engineered. Farmers must buy new higher priced seeds, activator
chemicals, herbicides, pesticides and fertilizers every season. Millions
of farmers are unable to pay these higher prices and are prosecuted in
court for growing their own seeds and end up losing their land. The new
processed foods not only cost more but they are free of adequate
nutrition causing obesity and starvation often in the same person.
Corporate resistance to the public's effort to address the causes of
climate change is also contribution to global hunger resulting in
droughts, floods and extreme temptures. Factory meat production is also
contributing to climate change. Government subsidies for corporate
agriculture make it difficult for organic farmers to compete reducing
the growing of more nutritional food.
Finally new laws are being implemented to restrict local organic food
cultivation. The United States government is set to pass the Food Safety
Modernization Act or Senate Bill 510 which could force even more people
to stop growing their own food making regulations and fees that could
make small scale farming impossible in the United States.
PLEASE FEEL FREE TO PRINT OUT THE FLYERS BELOW AND PROVIDE COPIES AT YOUR WORLD FOOD DAY ACTION
(down load sample flyer to promote your action )
Details on global hunger flyer (pdf)
What is wrong with McDonalds flyer (pdf)
Disasters Could Push Food Prices Up flyer (pdf)
Food Prices to Rise by 40 percent flyer (pdf)
Bad News For the Worlds Hungry flyer (pdf)
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