UN rapporteur talks about the global food crisis - 28 Apr 08

The United Nations is expected to reveal a so-called battle plan to tackle the growing global food crisis.

The meeting in Switzerland on Monday comes after a warning from the UN's Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food.

Jean Ziegler says biofuels are a crime against humanity. Al Jazeera asked him to give us his personal view on exactly what's wrong with the system right now.

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[mahatiba]

No body can claim that we did not know about the food crisis coming on the Horn of Africa.

[SufferInJuly]

Insects, when unchallenged, ruin 90% of field-crops. The Irradiation of produce & the genetic modification of seeds is part & parcel of "codex alimentarius" funded by the selfsame U.N. eugenicists who manipulate stock markets, spoil for was & who promote: cultural Marxism, Earth-worship, private gun bans, fiat currency, & the nonsensical designations for their sacred  American victims' groups: Native, African, gay, trans-gender, lesbian, Asian etc.

[ourloveourfriendship]

ha i thought he said that too at first!

[ultramagnes]

what causes poverty is the question that puts you back in the game

[TheAmazingRandall]

I have an idea... FARM MORE FOOD!!!! Instead of building walmarts, grow me some fucking orange juice. I'm fucking hungry.

[erlenmayr]

Maize, stupid.

The stuff you Americans call "corn".

[pdsavage]

did he say we was burning mice?????

[chardnj]

DID the rapporteur said..ferlizes the road????

[thepurplemann]

food is also a weapon

[scort8888]

If one person goes hungry because of the bio fuel industry it would be unacceptable?? And yet Dubai is going through an orgy of palatial expansion. Give me a break.