“Food Is An Existential Imperative, And A Moral One” – PH President BBM. “Healthy Food Is An Existential Imperative, And A Moral One” – PH Resident FAH
BBM says (from full text of UNGA speech, 21 Sept 2022, PhilStar, philstar.com):
This world order traces its roots to seventy-seven years ago. Your first Asian predecessor, Mr President, [Filipino] General Carlos P Romulo, called on our leaders then to “make this floor our last battlefield, to determine in this hall whether humanity is to survive or be wiped out in another holocaust.” Our peoples chose survival. They chose cooperation. They chose peace. And by doing so, they made history.
Why not the Filipino leading the United Nations again, this time in Agriculture fighting the cause of today’s holocaust, Climate Change?
After “Peace,” BBM talks about “Food.” He says:
This requires investment in food security, the fragility of which has been clearly demonstrated by the pandemic and the conflict in Ukraine. We need to take concrete steps towards a modern and resilient agriculture. For food is not just a trade commodity nor it is just a livelihood. It is an existential imperative, and a moral one. It is the very basis of human security.
As agriculturist, I Filipino qualify:
Food must be secure – and healthy. To amplify BBM, “Good food is the very basis of human security.” Good food is an imperative!
(“Imperative” from interventionalnews.com; “Good Food” from kcrw.com)
BBM also says, “We need to take concrete steps towards a modern and resilient agriculture.”
To attain food self-sufficiency and security, we are providing innovative solutions and financial support to farmers and fisher-folk to adapt new technologies and connect to national and global value supply chains. We look forward to forging cooperation with the UN and our partners to boost agricultural productivity and food security.
Food productivity and security. I know that when BBM says “innovative solutions,” he means within the purview of current methods of producing food, encompassed in the term “Chemical Agriculture” (CA).
As a journalist, I am about to qualify that. As you can discern in the images displayed above this essay, being an agriculturist who has considered Climate Change, I know that CA has proven to be quite innovative but it is not what we need:
Worldwide, experts know that CA is a major producer of greenhouse gases (GHGs) that produce Climate Change. If we want to stop Climate Change, I say we need “Primate Change” – we stop CA and resort to Regenerative Agriculture (RA):
It is imperative that we have healthy, regenerative food!
When BBM says “resilient agriculture,” his premise is Chemical Agriculture. His advisers are wrong in that sense, because as we can see, it is the current Chemical Agriculture practiced all over the world that is generating much of the GHGs generating much of the environmental damages creating havoc all over the world.
BBM Sir! Only Regenerative Agriculture will give us healthy foods – and a healthy world!@517
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