[AUT] Feeding Frenzy – a Discussion on Food, Fuel and Finance

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Hi, did anyone attend and have comment. I have requested mute crew to put any papers online.

 

Benedict Seymour ben at kein.org
Fri Jun 27 14:01:00 PDT 2008

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Hi all,
a late reminder of this forthcoming discussion in London (next week) - 
hope it will be of interest to some of you.
Thanks,
Ben


Mute Magazine invites you to a discussion

If the government is to be believed, we are undergoing a streak of 
freakily bad luck. First the credit crunch, then astronomical fuel price 
hikes and now a global food crisis. Could all these by any chance be 
connected?

Neoliberal policy makers and money-men clearly don't think so, since 
they are advocating more of the same medicine as a cure - further 
deregulation of food markets, more restructuring of developing countries 
sweetened by aid packages, more biotech and, of course, bank bail-outs 
to sustain the whole debt-addicted economy. In other words, propping up 
a system that will continue to force famished populations to grow 
export-only crops, to be fuel-intensively shipped to the developed 
world, to stock supermarket shelves at inflated prices for 
debt-encumbered consumers, while the famished producers pay through the 
nose for imported food at prices inflated by the flight of investment 
from mortgages into basic commodities. A vicious circle indeed.

But how can we best feed the world's swelling population? Is 'food 
sovereignty' a progressive or reactionary demand? Should biotech and 
industrial farming methods be embraced as a way of feeding a warming 
planet? Have we reached 'Peak Food'? Are biofuels, on balance, helpful 
or harmful? As food riots break out in Haiti, Cameroon and Bangladesh, 
and fuel protests by truckers threaten Europe's supply lines, what are 
the political possibilities of this conjunction of crises?

Mute magazine will be hosting an open discussion with contributions 
from: Gareth Dale (author of recent critiques of 'green capitalism' 
including 'On the Menu or At the Table: Corporations and Climate 
Change'), James Heartfield (author of Green Capitalism: Manufacturing 
Scarcity in the Age of Abundance), Helena Paul (co-director of Econexus, 
http://www.econexus.info/ and long term campaigner against GM and 
Agrofuels), Graham Burnett (vegan-punk permaculturist and founder of 
http://spiralseed.org.uk )

Where:

The Church House

Fletcher St (off Cable St)

London E1

When:

1 July at 7pm

Contact:

josie AT metamute.org

Links:

URL
http://www.metamute.org/en/feeding_frenzy_a_discussion_on_food_fuel_and_finance

Flyer:

PDF
http://www.metamute.org/sites/www.metamute.org/files/mute_food_flyer_02cropweb2.pdf

JPG
http://www.metamute.org/sites/www.metamute.org/files/mute_food_flyer_02cropweba_Page_1.jpg




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