Speaking of "African mass starvation"...
The same thing is happening with genetically modified food. Idiots actually protest this stuff when it has already saved countless millions from starvation.
Just another chapter in their brainless search for a cause to get behind.
Actually, no, there's more to that one. I was keeping up on the chatter when it was happening. The serious environmentalists (i.e. the hillbillies, hippies mostly of the great north west, farmers et al) were extremely upset and making as much noise as they could about Monsanto's Terminator seed technology. Google that, it turns up a lot of legit history. I remember the shocking statement out of the president or some other mouthpiece for WHO defending the practice of intentionally starving Africans to force compliance w/ WHO and UN policies.
This was one of many very legitimate complaints against agribusiness. There were many. Genetically manipulated Fusarium Oxysporum as Bill McCullum's "Silver Bullet" in the drug war was another outragous example of frankenfarming lunacy.
Here's what happens, though, to most logical, well founded protests. They try to ply their schtick in Seattle and they make the mistake of joining up in a most promiscuous way with just about damned near anybody who smiles at them for any reason, even if it's just the Ganga talkin'. Witness the campaign to ban Dihydrogenmonoxide:
I remember the whole episode of Penn & Teller. They painted all complaints about bioengineering with the same broad brush. It's wicked easy. Simple strategy, really, to discredit your opponent. Just find a pack of posers and fools who don't know a god damned thing, but like to pretend they do and put
them in front of the cameras. I was disappointed that a couple of bright fellows like Penn & Teller fell for it.
So you're in good company, to be sure. But really you haven't looked into this issue deeply enough. Think about it. Controlling the food supply has been a routine, accepted part of military and political strategy since Cesar noted that an army marches on it's stomach and much, much earlier in the more literate Far East. All you really have to ask yourself about whether or not it's being done is "are there the means". Yeah, I think we can agree that the means to do it are well in place; logistically, technologically and politically they certainly are. So what aspiring world ruler could resist the temptation to use them? The only thing saving us from total domination by an authoritarian world government is the other half a dozen or so authoritarian hopefuls all fuckin w/ each other as they tend to do.
As to precisely how? That's a much more muddy question. There's just so much misinformation out there and so few people w/ both the means and the incentive to get uncomfortable enough to say anything. Corn pone opinions.
