Thought for Food
Ban Ki-moon's in town. There's a lot of people in town. Trying to set up responses to the grain shortages. Geneva is bustling today, lots of UN agency heads trying to get secondary meetings set up. There will be a meeting of the FAO in Rome in five weeks time. Yesterday in Berne, in the old Postal Union, the oldest agency in the UN systems, Moon said "its not a crisis, its a catastrophy".
Meanwhile I suppose the Hero Twins are sniping at each other and at McCain, missing this opportunity, safely after Iowa, and in the center of target of party reflection on the future of the primary schedule, to talk about ethanol as a root cause of foreign hunger and a contributing factor in unsustainable, and increasingly GMO controlled factory farming.
And I suppose the A listers are dancing on the heads of pins (public policy coverage) damning the darkness rather than providing serious side-by-side-by-side or simply in-depth reporting.
As we drove up the Salinas Valley more crews were out than normal, as farmers try to harvest lettuce and broccoli before it bolts after two days of asphalt melting heat.
