Where's your food coming from? What and who is disrupting food production and supply? Food production, security, sovereignty and the coal and mining threat.

 Cross posted with Advocacy

Read the background to all this here.

If u want to help, Liverpool Plains farmers

are asking u to email/ring PM re Shenhua coal mine 

(details in the link below)

https://t.co/sn9g4a7fQB pic.twitter.com/JjLwr2Lc2r

— HRH Terry Australis (@AustralisTerry) July 8, 2015

Do you trust your government? Pacific governments are finalising the TPP - the Trans-Pacific Partnership. You won't get to hear about it until it is signed. It is predicted that it will remove your nation's sovereignty? Happy with that?

Fair Food - the film - showing in Ballarat at the Rural Lifestyle Expo at the Ballarat Showgrounds this Saturday 11 April

Fair Food - The Trailer from The Field Institute on Vimeo.

Anybody curious about our food system in Australia and the issues impacting it must see Fair Food the documentary. 
Screening this Saturday at midday 
at the Rural Lifestyle Expo 
at the Ballarat Showgrounds. 
http://www.ballaratfood.com/…/ballarat-fair-food-screening-…

Posted by Ballarat Food on Tuesday, 7 April 2015

Feeding the 7 billion ... what are we feeding ourselves?

From Tash Reus ~~~

La surconsommation from Lasurconsommation on Vimeo.

Wonder how we feed 7 billion people?  Not graphic, just sad, but really worth watching. Looks at our relationships with the animals we consume. We need to be accountable for how our food is produced and we need to appreciate the repercussions of our decisions.  

If you don't see anything wrong with this....maybe watch it again. 

I shall pass through this world but once, any good thing therefore I can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now, let me not defer or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again.Stephen Grellet

The animals you eat are not those who devour others; you do not eat the carnivorous beasts, you take them as your pattern. You only hunger after sweet and gentle creatures who harm no one, which follow you, serve you, and are devoured by you as the reward of their service. John Jacques Rousseau

God loved the birds and invented trees.  Man loved the birds and invented cages.  Jacques Deval, Afin de vivre bel et bien

The history of cancer research has been a history of curing cancer in the mouse. We have cured mice of cancer for decades, and it simply didn’t work in humans.Dr Richard Klausner, Director, National Cancer Institute, LA Times, May 6. 1998

Fair Food Week — 19-25 August 2013. Join in and begin to bring fairness into one of our three great life supports - FOOD, GLORIOUS FOOD!

What is Fair Food Week?

Coordinated by Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA), to support the Peoples’ Food Plan, Australia’s first-ever Fair Food Week shines a light on our new story of food.

Over the week — 19-25 August 2013 — you will discover events across the country that will attract, intrigue and entertain you:

• forums 
• workshops
•  speakers
•  films
•  farmers’ fairs
•  food swaps
•  community garden and farm tours
•  and more, much more.

The week’s events will celebrate the work of Australia’s fair food pioneers – the women and men doing the vital work of creating a fairer food system for all of us.

What’s fairness got to do with food?

Lots. Let’s start with farmers not being paid well by major retail chains for the food they grow and raise for us. Then there’s excessive food imports that unfairly disadvantage not only Australian farmers and farm workers but our food processors as well. And about much of that imported food… do we really know how it was grown and processed… and what was put on it to make it grow or easier to process… whether farm and factory workers enjoyed healthy, good and fair working conditions?

And there’s one more thing about fairness, and that’s about fair access to good, tasty food for the thousands of Australians and their children living on low incomes.

So, what’s that got to do with me?

It’s your chance to do what it is that you do best when it comes to food wherever you sit in the paddock-to-plate-and-back-again journey. You’ll have our support to grab attention via print and social media, word of mouth advertising, promotion at markets, restaurants, cafes, and libraries.

All over the country during the Fair Food Week people will create and participate in story-telling, workshops and other events the possibilities of which are limited only by your imagination.

Most of all, during Fair Food Week, go out and enjoy food produced fairly — that’s fairly in the social, economic and environmental sense.

How can we help make it happen…

Fair Food Week is a good idea we want to see take off because it’s about food fairness for all of us.

So, it’s time to put on our thinking caps and plough into that random access memory of our brains, there to find creative, crazy, innovative and intriguing ideas for you and your friends to make something wonderful happen during Fair Food Week.

And… we would LOVE to hear back from you ASAP so that we can begin to shape this week into wonderful reality.

• submit your event/s
• enter the photo competition to win over $750 of food-lover’s prizes
• join our twitter conversation — #fairfoodweek.
• like us on facebook.

Contacts AFSA organisers in different cities and regions.

Now it's all about Peak Food. Come to the People's Food Plan Public Forum

Picture from here

You've heard of Peak Oil and, perhaps, Peak Water. Now find out more about Peak Food. Please read the article embedded below.  Then, if you live in or near Melbourne, please come to the People's Food Plan Public Forum and Conversation next Sunday afternoon.  More details here. Find out more about the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance here.

Diagram from here 

Links relating to  Peak Food

Food Security

Peak Food - famine in The West by 2025?
Peak Food is near
The World Bank: 
Severe droughts drive food prices higher, threatening the poor
Resource crunch: why many things cost much more
Responding to Peak Oil, Peak Food, and Peak Population
Peak Oil=Peak Food=Peak People
Peak Food and Urban Agriculture

Dr Vandana Shiva in conversation with Dr Susan Hawthorne recently at Eltham

Dr Vandana Shiva in conversation with Dr Susan Hawthorne 
at Montsalvat in Eltham Victoria Australia on July 17 2012. 
These are two passionate, intelligent and caring women fighting 
for the rights of mother earth and all her inhabitants, including human beings. 

Presented by the Eltham Bookshop 
and 
Montsalvat.

The audio is not the best due to the poor quality public address system in the hall. 
Video is unedited save for the start and end.

Filmed by United Natures Independent Media 
Copyright 2012.

Your chance to become a movie co-producer. 
Support needed for a very important documentary and cause. 
United Natures - a United Nations of all species, featuring Dr Vandana Shiva.
http://www.pozible.com/index.php/archive/index/7628

Related articles

• Vandana Shiva on the Problem with Genetically Modified Seeds
• Vandana Shiva on Seeds of Humanity
• Vandana Shiva: 'Making Peace With the Earth Is a Survival Imperative'
• "Occupy the Food System to Create Food Democracy"

Coal and Energy Conference speaks only to its own players : those protecting farms, food, country are outsiders.

More from Denis of The Nature of Robertson (see previous post on coal):

Look what they are able to do - with obscene amounts of money - hold a posh conference 800Km away from the area being talked about.

Presumably a new form of "consultation".

Its an insult.

For info.

Denis

Miss Eagle''s thoughts are about social licence at every level of Australian society and power.

Politicians, Bureaucrats, Corporations

and every community facility, business and organisation

have to say NO.

Have to say - 

You don't have our permission -  

You don't have our social licence.

Add to this protest

by demonstrating that you won't vote for your usual party preference.

If you can't see your way clear to vote for another party,

then put the ballot in the box blank.

Sufficient informal votes should make political parties aware

of the votes that are up for grabs - IF they do the right thing by country and community.

~~~~~~~~~~

Picture here and below from A Black Cockatoo
This site is a fount of information.

Protest the Gunnedah Coal and Energy Conference

•     8:30am, Monday 25th June.
•     Crowne Plaza Hotel, Newcastle.

Come along and voice your opposition to the destruction of the Gunnedah Basin's food, forests, and water.

The Gunnedah Coal and Energy Conference will take place over two days at the exclusive Crowne Plaza Hotel Newcastle, next week. It costs more than $3000 to attend, ensuring that only representatives from the coal and gas industries, and government, will be in attendance. Conference attendees will be discussing ways to increase coal and gas mining in the Gunnedah region, and bypass community attempts to stop them. Included on the agenda is a session exploring ways to bypass landowners who “lock the gate” on coal and gas exploration to protect their land and water. Another session will discuss plans to double Newcastle coal exports to “200 million tonnes and beyond”.

Opening up the Gunnedah Basin to massive coal and gas mining is being met with broad opposition from farmers, community groups, and environmentalists. If the conference attendees get their way, vast swathes of agricultural land and precious ecosystems will be decimated by the forward march of coal and gas mines. Communities will be torn apart as massive new mining projects land at their doorstep. Aquifers, rivers, and wetlands will be polluted and destroyed.

Let's show the conference attendees what we think about their plans to open up the Gunnedah region to massive new coal and gas projects. Join us to protest the conference on Monday morning, and give them a resounding “No!” to more and coal and gas.

See you there 

at 8:30am next Monday 25th June, 

at the Crowne Plaza, 

corner ofMerewether Street and Wharf Road, Newcastle. 

Bring placards, banners, and props 

that demonstrate our message to put food, forests, and clean water 

before coal and gas in the Gunnedah Basin!

Talk jobs and justice this coming Saturday at Towards a Socialist Australia