Monday, July 29, 2024

The UN's Green Agenda Will Spark Famine

The right to food once drove UN policy towards reducing hunger with a clear focus on low- and middle-income countries.

Like the right to health, food has increasingly become a tool of cultural colonialism - the imposition of a narrow ideology of a certain Western mindset over the customs and rights of the 'peoples' that the UN represents.

The FAO was instrumental in implementing the 1960s and 1970s Green Revolution, associated with a doubling in world food production that lifted many Asian and Latin American populations out of food insecurity.

The FAO assesses the progressive implementation of the right to food through the annual flagship State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World reports, jointly with four other UN entities - the International Fund for Agricultural Development, United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, World Food Program, and the WHO. In addition, since 2000, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has established a "Special Rapporteur on the Right To Food," mandated to present an annual report to the Human Rights Council and to the UN General Assembly and monitor trends related to the right to food in specific countries.

Little evidence on the health impact of the guidelines was presented to back up the report's allegations of  red meats being linked with increased cancer animal source foods accounting for 35% of the burden of food-borne disease due to all foods, and  the health benefits of the Mediterranean Diet and the New Nordic Diet promoted by the report - both plant-based, with little to moderate amounts of animal-sourced foods.

Secondly, at the time of their adoption in 1948 and 1966, the treaties' provisions recognizing the right to food did not link food to its "Environmental pressure and impact." Article 11.2 of the binding ICESR refers to States' obligation to implement agrarian reforms and technologies for the best use of natural resources for optimal food production.

In the last decades, the right to food was sacrificed twice by the UN itself, first by the green agenda and second by lockdown measures supported by the UN for a virus predominantly affecting the wealthy countries where the climate agenda is based. 

https://brownstone.org/articles/the-uns-green-agenda-will-spark-famine/

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