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Posted on March 21, 2011

by daiaravi| 7 Comments

by Ravi

You may just want to check out where your rice is coming from.

I¡¯m old enough to remember the shock and awe at the sci-fi flik ¡°Soylent

Green¡± where good ¡®ol Chas Heston discovered that the food solution for the

over-crowded, polluted and no longer productive earth was to re-process the dead

and dying into ¡°Soylent Green¡± chips ¨C food from the bodies of the dead.

It was truly a ¡°camp¡± film and it quickly became (and still is) a kind of

classic symbol of our over-crowded earth, the stretching of our limited

resources by rampant, unthinking over-population. The thing is ¨C back in the

1970¡äs it was still campy sci-fi. The world population was just clicking over

3 billion and although for those who were paying attention, the red flags were

starting to pop up regarding over-population, underproduction of food, crop

failures and starvation, most people were complacent and happily ignorant.

Now, if you remember the film, you¡¯ll recall that there were other soylent food

color chips before green was introduced. Presumably these were other almost as

frightening food concepts as the dying world¡¯s food producing corporation

¡°Soylent¡± was recycling anything and everything that could even remotely serve

as food.

That¡¯s where today¡¯s story comes in.

Reports have been surfacing in southeast Asia about an interesting food-like

solution being illegally manufactured and sold ¨C some exported- from China. As

if their melamine-in-the-milk-to-fake-increased-protein-value poisoning episode

was not enough, some of their increasingly despotic and immoral manufacturers

are ¡°bulking up¡± a fake rice product¡­. with plastic bags.

China Makes Fake Rice from Plastic (link)

Reports are in that an absolutely yummy-sounding composite of cheap potato

starches and, yes, plastic bags are being scrumptiously whipped up and molded

into little rice-like food-like substance ¨C we¡¯re talking Soylent White here.

Beyond the despicable lies the humor ¨C or at least that is how we attempt to

de-fuse our revulsion. (thus the rather humorous graphics this post has

afforded me).

And from Health Freedoms.Org:

¡°A Chinese Restaurant Association official said that eating three bowls of this

fake rice would be like eating one plastic bag. Due to the seriousness of the

matter, he added that there would be an investigation of factories alleged to be

producing the rice,¡± Very Vietnam noted.

And what¡¯s the root of this growing catastrophe?

At the time of the movies release, in classic head-in-the-sand fashion, most of

the human race went on blithely reproducing (see the inanity of religious-dogma

based ¡°Quiver-Full¡±) with the industrialized nations over-consuming till today

when we are just clicking over 7 billion ¨C way better than twice the 1970

population (and we¡¯re talkin¡¯ getting there in just 40 years folks). At this

rate ¨C which is now plainly impossible to maintain ¨C we¡¯ll be doubled again

in less than 30 years ¨C 14+ billion mouths to feed. This is quite literally

not possible as our energy/food production system is already beginning to crash

around our heads.

Some More Perspective, The ¡°Village¡± analogy yet again, updated:

If the world were a village of 100 people¡­

61 villagers would be Asian (of that, 20 would be Chinese and 17 would be

Indian), 14 would be African, 11 would be European, 9 would be Latin or South

American, 5 would be North American, and none of the villagers would be from

Australia, Oceania, or Antarctica.

At least 18 villagers would be unable to read or write but 33 would have

cellular phones and 16 would be online on the Internet.

27 villagers would be under 15 years of age and 7 would be over 64 years old.

There would be an equal number of males and females.

There would be 18 cars in the village.

63 villagers would have inadequate sanitation.

33 villagers would be Christians, 20 would be Muslims, 13 would be Hindus, 6

would be Buddhists, 2 would be atheists, 12 would be non-religious, and the

remaining 14 would be members of other religions.

30 villagers would be unemployed or underemployed while of those 70 who would

work, 28 would work in agriculture (primary sector), 14 would work in industry

(secondary sector), and the remaining 28 would work in the service sector

(tertiary sector).

53 villagers would live on less than two U.S. dollars a day.

One villager would have AIDS, 26 villagers would smoke, and 14 villagers would

be obese.

By the end of a year, one villager would die and two new villagers would be born

so thus the population would climb to 101.

So what¡¯s the upshot of all this?¡­

¡­besides the queasy feeling that maybe we won¡¯t be able to obtain the REAL

FOOD we all crave in the very near future?

Create a personal awareness of your own over-consumption, work to create local

production of REAL FOOD ¨C (like your own gardens and chickens at the very

least), and support local agriculture and animal husbandry so you know where

your food is coming from and can trust it¡¯s source.

Basically - stop taking for granted that the store shelves are always

abundantly stocked with all the wholesome foods that you want for yourself and

your family. To become PROACTIVE in the production and support of the production

of REAL FOOD in your own region, local, neighborhood and your own gardens.

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Are YOU creating local REAL FOOD production?