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Khủng hoảng thực phẩm là kết quả của khí hậu thay đổi - 27 tháng 7 , 2008

Bộ trưởng Phát triển Môi sinh, Nhà và Thành thị của Nigeria, Halima Tayo Alao, diễn thuyết trước một nhóm ký giả, nói về thay đổi khí hậu tạo nên khủng hoảng thực phẩm toàn cầu. Nói chi tiết về cách mà sa mạc hóa, hạn hán, và phá rừng làm đất đai thoái hóa thêm, Bộ trưởng Alao bày tỏ quan tâm về cách lục địa Phi Châu gánh chịu những hậu quả lớn nhất của hâm nóng hoàn cầu. Bà kêu gọi các cường quốc giúp đỡ bằng cách tài trợ cho việc thích nghi, và cũng nói về sự vận động nâng cao ý thức, để thông tin công chúng về các vấn đề thích nghi và giảm thiểu những tình trạng này.

Thưa Bộ trưởng Alao, chúng tôi tri ân tường trình đầy dữ kiện và quan tâm của bà về thực tế của thay đổi khí hậu mà cư dân đối diện hiện nay. Phúc lành thay cho nỗ lực của quý vị nhằm vận động toàn cầu hành động để ổn định và an toàn cho tất cả.

http://allafrica.com/stories/200807250507.html?page=2

http://www.suprememastertv.com/au/fo...d=486&page=2#v

Ăn thịt gây nên nạn đói thế giới - 9 tháng 8 , 2008

Một bài viết bởi Chris Holbein thuộc hội Con người Đối xử Nhân đạo Đối với Thú vật (PETA), cho thấy rõ rằng 40 triệu tấn thực phẩm có thể giải quyết nhu cầu của khoảng 854 triệu người hiện đang đói kém trên thế giới hiện nay. Thay vì thế, con người dùng 760 triệu tấn thực phẩm để nuôi nông súc rồi sau cùng chúng sẽ bị giết. Riêng tại Hoa Kỳ, lượng ngũ cốc và đậu nành được dùng để nuôi gia súc vô tội, có thể nuôi 1,4 tỷ người.

Như ông George Monbiot thuộc tờ báo The Guardian nói về ăn chay: “Hiện nay, đã rõ ràng rằng ăn chay là giải đáp nhân đạo duy nhất cho vấn đề có thể nói là sự công bằng xã hội cấp bách nhất trên thế giới.” Chúng tôi chân thành tri ân ông Holbein và nhiều mạng điện tử, cho việc chia sẻ tài liệu này. Chúng tôi cầu rằng con người nhanh chóng đổi sang lối dinh dưỡng chay để muôn loài có đầy đủ thực phẩm và để hồi phục cân bằng trên địa cầu này.


http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-MqEKk...Y-?cq=1&p=4899

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Nguồn thực phẩm bị ảnh hưởng bởi số ong mật tiếp tục giảm - 21 tháng 8 , 2008

Gần đây trong buổi họp ở Nghị viện Hoa Kỳ, các nông gia cho biết rằng sự mất mát ong mật đang đe dọa nguồn thực phẩm, và rất có thể dẫn đến giá cả thực phẩm leo thang. Rối loạn Suy sụp Tổ ong, là sự gần biến mất hoàn toàn của ong trong tổ, khiến một số người nuôi ong Hoa Kỳ mất đến 90% số ong của họ.

Các chuyên gia về ong tại Đại học Tiểu bang Pennsylvania khám phá các mực độ cực kỳ cao của chất hóa học cũng như trên 70 chất diệt trừ sâu bọ nông nghiệp trong các tổ ong và phấn hoa. Các khoa học gia nghi rằng ảnh hưởng hỗn hợp của nhiều chất hóa học qua các giai đoạn lâu dài, có thể là một trong những nguyên nhân chính của Rối loạn Suy sụp Tổ ong. Một khám phá tương tự ở Đức và Pháp dẫn đến lệnh cấm dùng thuốc diệt sâu bọ.

Chúng tôi gửi lời tri ân đến các nông gia Hoa Kỳ và khoa học gia, cho báo động cẩn trọng này. Chúng tôi trông đến một ngày khi mà thực phẩm trồng trọt không dùng thuốc hóa học và ong mật tối quan hệ được hồi phục hoàn toàn.

http://www.thedailygreen.com/environ...cides-55081801,
http://www.ars.usda.gov/News/docs.htm?docid=15572, http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...BAKR12DBPO.DTL, http://www.ento.psu.edu/Personnel/ExtAssoc/frazierm.htm,
http://www.ento.psu.edu/Personnel/ExtAssoc/frazierm.htm,
http://www.thedailygreen.com/environ...order-55070601,
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...-the-bees.html, http://www.enn.com/wildlife/article/37493

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Với khủng hoảng thực phẩm trên thế giới vẫn tiếp tục , nhu cầu thực phẩm cơ bản đang bị từ chối - 17 tháng 9 , 2008

Người có nhiệm vụ báo cáo Đặc biệt của Liên Hiệp Quốc về Quyền Thực phẩm, Olivier De Schutter, đã báo cáo trước Hội đồng Nhân quyền ở Geneva, Thụy Sĩ, là dù giá thực phẩm đã giảm bớt một chút, nhưng hàng triệu người vẫn không thể đáp ứng nhu cầu cơ bản về thực phẩm. Nói về khả năng bất ổn do khủng hoảng thực phẩm, Josette Sheeran, giám đốc điều hành của Chương trình Thực phẩm Thế giới của Liên Hiệp Quốc, nói: “Với nông dân nghèo không thể nuôi chính gia đình họ, thì chúng ta đang gặp nguy hiểm.” Chương trình Thực Phẩm Thế giới của Liên Hiệp Quốc, viện trợ 200 triệu Mỹ kim để xoa dịu nạn đói ở các khu vực thiếu kém, trong lúc Tổ chức Lương Nông Liên Hiệp Quốc đang phân phát hạt giống, phân bón và nhiều nông cụ khác ở 78 quốc gia, ngoài khoản tiền trị giá 1 tỷ Mỹ kim sẽ được dùng để hỗ trợ trực tiếp.

Thưa Người có nhiệm vụ báo cáo De Schutter, giám đốc Sheeran, và tất cả cơ quan Liên Hiệp Quốc, xin chân thành cám ơn quý vị và Thiên Đàng gia trì quý vị đã giúp thông báo cho công chúng biết, cùng lúc cung cấp cho các anh chị em khốn khó. Cầu mong tất cả chúng ta mau chuyển sang lối ăn chay cứu mạng để xoa dịu khủng hoảng thực phẩm và mang lại nhiều thực phẩm cho người dân trên thế giới.

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.as...%20Crisis&Cr1=

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Ong Ý Đại Lợi đang biến mất - 18 tháng 9 , 2008

Số lượng ong ở Ý được nhận thấy đã sụt giảm 50% trong vài năm vừa qua, với trứng từ ong chúa cũng giảm về số lượng. Những người nuôi ong và chuyên gia tuyên bố rằng hai nguyên nhân rất có thể, là khí hậu thay đổi và thuốc diệt sâu bọ. Francesco Panella, Chủ tịch của Liên hiệp Người nuôi Ong Ý Đại Lợi, nói rằng thuốc diệt sâu bọ tác động trên thần kinh hệ của sâu bọ và ảnh hưởng khả năng định hướng của chúng. Kết quả là, chúng không tìm được đường trở về tổ và cuối cùng bị thiệt mạng. Sự mất mát của ong cũng đe dọa việc sản xuất thực phẩm và kinh tế quốc gia, vì không có ong để thụ phấn, nên trái cây và rau cải không thể mọc được. Tổ chức này do đó đang tìm cách để tạm thời cấm sử dụng thuốc trừ sâu bọ hầu có thể cứu xét thêm.

Xin cảm tạ ông Panella và Liên hiệp Người nuôi Ong Ý Đại Lợi, đã cho công chúng biết về tình cảnh hiểm nghèo này. Chúng tôi cầu rằng những dấu hiệu này từ thiên nhiên, sẽ đánh thức chúng ta để áp dụng thêm các biện pháp duy trì Địa cầu hầu bảo vệ ong và tất cả đời sống.


http://www.lifeinitaly.com/news/

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Số người đói trên thế giới gia tăng đến 923 triệu trong năm 2007 - 11 tháng 10 , 2008

Trong một tường trình phát hành hôm thứ tư bởi Ngân hàng Quốc tế, giá thực phẩm và nhiên liệu cao dự kiến sẽ khiến 967 triệu người trên thế giới thiếu dinh dưỡng và đây là con số cao nhất từ trước đến nay. Tổ chức Thực phẩm và Nông nghiệp Liên Hiệp Quốc (FAO) gần đây tuyên bố rằng nạn đói toàn cầu đã tăng lên 923 triệu vào năm 2007. Tuyên bố mới nhất này cho thấy hiện có thêm 44 triệu người mà thường xuyên không có đủ thức ăn.

Chúng tôi cầu rằng các quốc gia khắp hoàn cầu chung sức giúp đỡ các anh chị em đang cần, khi chúng ta cố áp dụng lối sống nhân từ hơn để cứu Địa cầu như là lối dinh dưỡng chay để mọi công dân thế giới được bồi dưỡng đầy đủ.


http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/20...t_10167702.htm, http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2008/1000923/

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Người Mã Lai ở nông thôn tự trồng thực phẩm riêng - 17 tháng 10 , 2008

Đối với những người ở nông thôn của tiểu bang Sarawak, giá thực phẩm leo thang đã lên hơn gấp đôi giá các sản phẩm chủ yếu như gạo. Để phản ứng lại, 2.000 người dân của cộng đồng nông thôn ở Long Lama đã bắt đầu tự trồng thực phẩm và hiện đang trồng nhiều ruộng lúa cũng như các khu vườn đầy rau cải, đậu, ớt chuông, sắn bột và trái cây.

Chà, quả là một phản ứng đầy cảm hứng đối với nghịch cảnh, thưa người dân ở Long Lama. Mong chúng ta được khích lệ bởi tấm gương đầy phấn khởi của quý vị để có bước tiến xanh tương tự cho chính mình và tinh cầu.

Thanh Hải Vô Thượng Sư: Tôi có ý kiến khác; đó là những người có một thước Anh, thay vì trồng cỏ hay những thứ khác, hãy trồng rau cải. Quý vị có thể trồng đủ cho mình hoặc như một phần bổ sung. Cách này, quý vị có thể có thực phẩm chay ngon, tiết kiệm tiền, thời gian và năng lượng dùng vào vận chuyển.

http://thestar.com.my/metro/story.as...sec=southneast

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Tình trạng đàn ong sụt giảm có thể là do không khí ô nhiễm - 24 tháng 10 , 2008

Tình trạng đàn ong sụt giảm có thể là do không khí ô nhiễm. Các nghiên cứu gia ở Đại học Virginia, Hoa Kỳ, đã khẳng định rằng khí ozôn gần mặt đất và hợp chất ni-trat đang gây trở ngại nghiêm trọng cho hương hoa bay xa, là điều cần thiết để ong thụ phấn. Giáo sư Jose Fuentes cho biết phân tử mùi thơm của hoa hiện chỉ bay được 200 thước so với 1.200 thước ở các môi trường ít được thụ phấn.

Điều này gây khó khăn cho ong trong việc tìm thức ăn, và do đó góp phần gây nên tình trạng sụt giảm của đàn ong. Xin vô cùng cám ơn nghiên cứu của giáo sư Fuentes và các đồng nghiệp, giúp chúng tôi hiểu rõ hơn về ảnh hưởng của những chất ô nhiễm đối với các bạn ong quý báu. Cầu xin Thượng Đế dẫn dắt tất cả chúng ta hướng đến các biện pháp tự nhiên, khẳng định sự sống nhằm bảo đảm tương lai tươi sáng hơn trên Địa Cầu.

http://www.suprememastertv.com/au/fo...d=493&page=2#v

Mozambique : Không hạt giống bị biến đổi di truyền trong cuộc Giải phóng Xanh - 24 tháng 10 , 2008

Mozambique nói “không” với hạt giống bị biến đổi di truyền. Phát biểu trước nghị viện quốc gia, thủ tướng Mozambique Luisa Diogo đã khẳng định với các nhà lập pháp rằng chương trình “Cách mạnh Xanh,” một nỗ lực nhằm chấm dứt nhập cảng các sản phẩm chủ yếu như gạo và khoai tây hầu ủng hộ sự độc lập về thực phẩm, không cần phụ thuộc vào việc sử dụng hạt giống bị biến đổi di truyền tính.

Để trả lời một câu hỏi về chủ đề này, bà phát biểu: “Thực tế là việc sử dụng hạt giống biến đổi di truyền ở Mozambique sẽ bị cấm. Chúng ta sẽ dùng loại hạt được cải thiện do Mozambique sản xuất, mà không bị biến đổi di truyền tính.” Kính xin thán phục thủ tướng và Mozambique đã bảo đảm sức khỏe tốt hơn cho người dân, cùng lúc khích lệ sự phát triển bền vững. Xin Thiên Đàng gia ân cho người dân Mozambique luôn có thực phẩm dồi dào và cuộc sống thịnh vượng hòa hợp với thiên nhiên.

http://www.suprememastertv.com/au/fo...d=494&page=2#v

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Climate-related hunger a mounting tragedy - 8 Jul 2009

On Monday, humanitarian organization Oxfam released a report that detailed the devastation climate change has had on people who depend on their harvests to survive. As weather patterns become more irregular and extreme, farmers are more impoverished as their harvests fail, with hunger ever more imminent.

Oxfam warns that without intervention, the past 50 years of work to end poverty could be reversed. Calling for commitments in the upcoming United Nations climate talks, Oxfam spokeswoman Julianne Richards said: “Without urgent action to reduce our emissions, climate-related hunger could be the defining human tragedy of this century.”

Oxfam, we appreciate this timely reminder of the pressing issue of global warming that is affecting all aspects of human survival. Blessed be all efforts to assist those in need as we strive for meaningful changes that ensure a sustainable future for all in our world.
Reference

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2....htm?site=news

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Former Ghanaian president named UN Goodwill Ambassador Against Hunger - 29 July 2009

Mr. John Kufuor, Ghana's former president was appointed to the World Food Program’s humanitarian post and will be traveling to disaster-stricken areas to assess and make recommendations. Regarding his new role, Mr. Kufuor stated, “Ensuring that every child has proper nutrition has to be the goal of every world leader. I hope to inspire them all to strive for this goal.”

Our respectful accolades, Your Excellency, on your new position. May Heaven bless your noble mission in bettering the lives of children and adults the world over.

Reference:

http://www.africanews.com/site/Ghana...messages/26112,

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp...V8b9aqEY80qGKA

http://www.suprememastertv.com/au/fo...d=960&page=2#v

US city enacts Green Food Resolution to promote eating veg - 1 Aug 2009

The new declaration recognizes the health and environmental benefits of plant-based foods and affirms that such nourishment will be made more easily accessible to city residents.
Proposed by Alderman Margaret Laurino and advocated by Liz Mills, Executive Director of Irving Park Carlson Ministries, Chicago’s City Council voted to approve the measure. This marks the first accomplishment in a campaign sponsored by US-based Farm Sanctuary to adopt the Green Food Resolution in cities nationwide.

Gene Baur, president and co-founder of Farm Sanctuary said, “We applaud Alderman Laurino and the City of Chicago … By promoting access to healthy, plant-based food, Chicago has proven they are second to none in protecting the health of their citizens, the environment and the billions of animals raised for food in deplorable conditions on factory farms each year.”

Alderman Laurino, Ms. Liz Mills and Chicago City Council, we join in lauding your auspicious leadership in providing ample access to wholesome plant-based food. Wishing all Chicagoans and residents nationwide the personal and planetary gains of a delicious vegan diet.

Reference

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/07/23-6

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/20...ly-grown-food/

http://www.suprememastertv.com/au/fo...d=981&page=2#v

Mekong Delta harvests threatened - 5 Aug 2009

In Âu Lạc (Vietnam), summer-autumn rice and vegetables have been inundated by heavy rains, submerging thousands of hectares. In the provinces of Hậu Giang and Long An, parts of rice paddies have been destroyed and continued overcast weather is preventing the remaining rice from drying naturally, reducing its quality and price.

Over 2,000 personnel along with 3,000 pumps are working to fortify the levee systems and clear the fields of water.

We thank the workers for their diligent endeavors to improve the agricultural conditions of the Mekong Delta. May the people of Âu Lạc enjoy prosperous and wholesome yields as Earth’s stability is ensured through our greater consideration and care.

Reference

http://english.vietnamnet.vn/social/2009/08/861434/

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US crop yields could plummet with rapid climate change - 2 Sep 2009

Crops produced in the US could decline in yields by as much as 82% due to global warming, according to a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Dr. Michael Roberts and Dr. Wolfram Schlenker of North Carolina State University in the USA studied the critical threshold of several crops and found that warmer temperatures significantly impacted yields starting at only 29°C for corn, 30°C for soybeans and 32°C for cotton.

Thank you Drs. Roberts, Schlenker and all researchers involved in this eye-opening study.
Our prayers for swift and widespread measures of compassion to halt this damaging trend and ensure food security for all.

Supreme Master Ching Hai often encourages practices of greater care and consideration to help restore the stabilityof our ecosphere, as during an October 2008 global warming videoconference in Thailand.

Supreme Master Ching Hai: We cannot prepare much. Even if we stockpile some food and all that, it is not always helpful. It just makes the world food shortage worsen.
So, we can only rely on the good karma that we can create. And that we can do.

We can save ourselves right now by turning to the vegetarian diet which is benevolent, which is very compassionate,and by being compassionate to others, Heaven will be compassionate to us.
Then you can see immediately the weather will change.

Everything will return to a more peaceful abundance because Heaven is merciful. So if we want to have a good result, we have to start doing good. Be veg, go green,and do good deeds.

Reference

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009...ate-change.php

http://www.suprememastertv.com/au/fo...=1074&page=2#v

Nepal imperiled by climate change - 11 Sep 2009

With more than 70% of Nepalese being farmers who live in rural areas, global warming is causing devas tation as harvests this year have decreased by half. Temperature extremes have also become more common, as have droughts and intense storms, when there is precipitation at all.

In a report published ahead of a climate change summit in the capital city of Kathmandu., international aid agency Oxfam said that the Nepalese people were being pushed beyond their limits and forecast that 3.4 million would require food assistance.

Scientists are concerned for worsening conditions if the Himalayan glaciers disappear – an event some feel could occur within just 30 years. Moreover, the impact would be felt by more than 1 billion people across Asia.

Oxfam scientists, many thanks for this report despite our sadness at knowing the plight of the Nepalese people. May our swiftly harmonious and sustainable actions protect the Earth, restoring all of Asia to abundance and vibrancy.

Supreme Master Ching Hai expressed concern once again about the real crisis of global warming during a June 2008 videoconference with our Association members in London, reminding of the immediate benefits of the life-affirming vegan lifestyle.

Supreme Master Ching Hai: It's just getting worse nowadays, more obvious. You just have to tune in to any TV channels, any radio, read any newspapers, they are full of reports, almost daily, about world hunger, and the shortage of food, unaffordable food prices, unaffordable daily necessities, basic necessities.

And unprecedented frequent disasters. And crop failures due to bad weathers. And the non-stoppable sea rising levels, high priced fuels, shortages, incurable or strange new diseases... all of these are happening now!

Supreme Master Ching Hai: Vegetarianism is the only solution. It's the best, the fastest solution.
Supreme Master Ching Hai: I pray that people in the world wake up on time and just forsake that piece of meat, then everything will be just fine. Everything will be beautiful, nice, peaceful.

Reference

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Drought forces thousands of farmers to cities - 15 Sep 2009

Following two years of scarce rain and resulting crop failures,thousands of Syrian families are migrating to cities in search of alternative jobs.

Climate change, along with human-caused desertification from grazing animals as well as the absence of irrigation, has affected 60% of the nation’s land, with over 800,000 people who have completely lost their livelihoods.

With over 60,000 families that have migrated thus far, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is providing support to families in efforts to keep children in school, while the International ederation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has provided funds for food aid to be distributed to the most vulnerable.

We are grateful, United Nations Children’s Fund, International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and all those working to ease the situation of the Syrians. May such tragic circumstances soon be eliminated as more people turn to kinder, higher standards.

Concerned for our imperiled planetary stability, Supreme Master Ching Hai spoke in a July 2008 videoconference with Supreme Master Television staff, offering a clear and simple approach to bring resolution to this troubling situation.

Supreme Master Ching Hai : We can help to better prepare for the future food crisis; it’s not future, it’s already there, but we can help to minimize it or curb it, by helping the developed nations to understand that vegetarian diet, is the cure for food shortage.

And that we should share the resources and technology with all fellow brethren as Heaven intended us to do. Again and again, eating meat is the cause of most misery on our planet.

People must realize that putting down that piece of meat, which is poisonous, is all they have to do to obtain peace on Earth, and to eliminate hunger for good, and to save the planet, of course.

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Small growers increasingly affected by climate change - 25 Oct 2009

A three-year research project conducted by UK-based fair trade company, Cafédirect, evaluated the sensitivity to global warming of small-scale coffee and tea farmers in Kenya, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Peru. The study found that growers have already been moving to higher altitudes as temperatures rise across the globe. Moreover, their yields have been noted to fall, such as in Peru, where annual coffee and tea harvests have decreased by 40 percent, and Mexico which saw a 50 percent annual loss in yields next to the country’s average seven percent decrease.

Citing some of the specific global warming effects, Cafédirect’s Chief Executive Officer Anne MacCaig said, “A huge number of growers are now experiencing increased instances of pestilence and disease from rises in temperature. They are also facing prolonged drought and changing weather patterns.”
According to the study, 30 million small farmers could be impacted with up to a 90 percent drop in income.

Cafédirect researchers, we appreciate your work that clearly documents the damaging consequences of climate change. Let us step quickly toward sustainable lifestyles so that all beings may once again prosper.

Ever-concerned for humanity’s survival, Supreme Master Ching Hai addressed the warming effects faced by farmers and indeed the world during a May 2009 videoconference in Togo, while also highlighting what everyone can do to solve them.

Supreme Master Ching Hai: There are water crises that make it difficult to plant crops, thus adding to food shortages and prices rising. Add to this, desertification and deforestation that further degrade the land.

Increased temperatures mean erratic rainfall If you’re a farmer, you already can feel that the climate is in trouble. There are more frequent droughts, heat waves, floods, storms, frosts, freezes, and locusts than before.
If the world becomes vegan as a group, we can remedy the disasters that affect us globally.

Supreme Master Ching Hai: This is something all citizens of the world can do. Be vegan. Be a world-saver.

Reference

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Khí hậu thay đổi đã gây nguy hiểm cho an toàn thực phẩm - 22 tháng 11, 2009

Trong Hội nghị Thượng đỉnh Thực phẩm Thế giới kéo dài 3 ngày của Liên Hiệp Quốc gần đây từ 17 đến 19 tháng 11, Tổ chức Lương Nông LHQ tuyên bố rằng hơn 1,2 tỷ người, hay 1 phần 6 dân số nhân loại toàn cầu, đang đói kém do xung đột trong vùng, khủng hoảng tài chánh thế giới, giá năng lượng và thực phẩm tăng cao.

Khi nói với hội đồng, Tổng Bí thư LHQ Ban ki-Moon nhấn mạnh rằng an toàn thực phẩm lệ thuộc vào việc xoay ngược hâm nóng toàn cầu, và việc thiếu nước đã trở thành một trong các hậu quả sớm nhất và dễ thấy nhất. Cùng với Phi châu, Á châu và Châu Mỹ La Tinh, nông nghiệp được coi sẽ sụt giảm đến 40% khi nhiệt độ gia tăng trên 2 độ C, Lòng Sông Dương Tử, hỗ trợ cho 1 phần 3 tổng số dân số Trung quốc, có lẽ cũng sẽ đối diện với thời tiết khắc nghiệt hơn.

Hơn nữa, hơn 20 triệu người Đông Phi được ước tính là đang ở trong tình trạng thiếu hụt thực phẩm nghiêm trọng sau xung đột và hạn hán. Tổng Bí thư Ban cảnh báo, “Ở nhiều nơi trên thế giới, các nguồn nước đang sụt giảm, đất nông nghiệp đang trở nên khô cạn. Chúng ta phải có những thay đổi đáng kể để cung cấp thực phẩm cho chúng ta, và quan trọng nhất là bảo vệ người nghèo và người yếu đuối nhất.”

Ban Ki-Moon: Không thể có sự an toàn thực phẩm nếu không có an toàn khí hậu Đó là tại sao tháng tới tại Copenhagen chúng ta cần một thỏa hiệp bao hàm toàn diện mà sẽ cung cấp nền tảng vững chắc cho hiệp ước bắt buộc hợp pháp về khí hậu thay đổi.

Giáo hoàng Benedict XVI: Sự bảo tồn môi sinh là thử thách tân thời để cam đoan việc phát triển hòa hợp tôn trọng dự án của Thượng Đế, Đấng Sáng tạo, và do đó có thể bảo tồn Địa Cầu.

Nếu tất cả nhân loại được kêu gọi để ý thức bổn phận của chính mình đối với các thế hệ tương lai, thì cũng đúng rằng bổn phận bảo vệ môi sinh là trách nhiệm của những quốc gia và tổ chức quốc tế.

Tổng Bí thư Ban, Liên Hiệp Quốc và mọi nhà lãnh đạo tham dự, xin tri ân quý vị đã quan tâm về phúc lợi của người dân trên khắp thế giới. Thật vậy, mong nhân loại nhanh chóng chấp nhận giải pháp bền vững nhất cho nạn đói cũng như khí hậu thay đổi trên thế giới: lối ăn thuần chay hữu cơ. Thanh Hải Vô Thượng Sư đã thường xuyên nêu rõ việc sản xuất thịt là yếu tố tác hại phía sau sự thiếu hụt tài nguyên và hâm nóng toàn cầu, như tại hội thảo trực tuyến tháng 7, 2009 với các chuyên gia khí hậu và các chuyên gia khác ở California, Hoa Kỳ.

Thanh Hải Vô Thượng Sư: Ngũ cốc mà chúng ta dùng để nuôi gia súc có thể nuôi 2 tỷ người. Cho nên, tôi không hiểu, chúng ta đang sống trong loại thế giới gì, đang theo kiểu chính sách gì, đang đối đãi với mình và đồng loại của mình kiểu tử tế gì, chưa nói chi đến thú vật.

Thượng Đế đã tạo đủ nước cho chúng ta, đủ thực phẩm cho chúng ta, thậm chí để dùng mãi mãi, nếu chúng ta biết cách ngưng lạm dụng tài nguyên của Địa Cầu và lương thực trên đó. Chúng ta không nên giết chúng sinh để thỏa mãn sự tham lam của mình. Đây là điểm chính của các vấn đề địa cầu hiện giờ, chúng ta tiêu xài thái quá phước báu đạo đức và tài nguyên thế giới. Ngừng ăn thịt là giải pháp chính để cứu địa cầu.

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Food insecurity looms with more rapid climate change - 5 Dec 2010

With recent research doubling forecasts due to new information about accelerated ice melt in Antarctica and other regions, a 1.4-meter sea level rise is now being anticipated in coastal areas and islands before the next century.

Countries such as Âu Lạc (Vietnam) are thus calling attention to the issue of food security ahead of the upcoming international negotiations in Copenhagen. Deputy Director of the Aulacese (Vietnamese) Meteorology, Hydrology and Climate Change Department, Mr. Nguyễn Khắc Hiếu has stated that the anticipated flooding would inundate 31,000 square kilometers of the Mekong Delta – an area about the size of Belgium.

As the world’s second largest rice exporter, the effect to both Âu Lạc and many other countries would be profound. Deputy Director Nguyễn is thus asking that adaptation issues be addressed at the Copenhagen climate summit.

Our appreciation, Deputy Director Nguyễn and Âu Lạc for calling attention to this vital topic at such a crucial juncture for humanity. May the decisions of our world leaders bring unified steps to restore the balance of our ecosphere. During an August 2009 climate change conference in Thailand, Supreme Master Ching Hai further highlighted the tolls of the current global crisis, while emphasizing the critical need for appropriate action to reverse the situation.

Supreme Master Ching Hai : In Âu Lạc (Vietnam), you probably know of global warming related problems such as the untimely flooding and encroachment of the sea of the Mekong Delta region –
both of which have caused havoc and further threat to the region’s vital rice and fruit crops.
This is due to a combination of sea levels rising, along with the effect of melting glaciers, which are now causing excessive floods but eventually will cause drought and vastly diminished water supplies as well.

So we must work quickly to avoid such unwanted outcomes.

And the most effective way is the organic vegan diet, organic vegetable farming. This is also the fastest way to reverse the increased warming climate to prevent further damage and disaster. If everyone does this – be veg – the Earth will begin to cool and we will have more time to implement the measures to eliminate all the carbon emissions. So please, be veg,and tell everyone else of these benefits.

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Vanishing topsoil foreshadows impending food crisis. - 12 Feb 2010

A study presented by Professor John Crawford at the recent Carbon Farming Conference held in New South Wales, Australia, focused on the dangerous loss of topsoil throughout the world.

Some 75 billion tons are being eroded annually through a combination of agricultural mismanagement and climate change effects, with livestock grazing also causing significant losses.

In the United States alone, 54% of pasture land is overgrazed, with more than 100 tons of topsoil being lost per hectare per year. At the current rates, experts say that recent events such as the major dust storms in Australia will become more and more frequent, with a vanishing of the resource within decades.

Saying that restorative actions are needed now, Professor Crawford recommended a combination of practices, including organic farming methods to help rebuild and replace carbon in the soil.

Dr. Crawford and associates, we are grateful for your research that highlights the value of this imperiled natural resource. May such information motivate more and more people to adopt lifestyles that protect the Earth for ourselves and future generations.

Supreme Master Ching Hai, who frequently reminds of humanity’s crucial role in environmental conservation, spoke of the benefits of organic vegan farming during an interview for the September 2009 edition of The House Magazine.

Supreme Master Ching Hai: There are so many benefits from organic vegan farming, as well as many benefiting parties. First, for the farmers, organic vegan farming is productive, saving 37% more energy and even more water than conventional farming methods.

Next, there are environmental benefits, like the topsoil stays and proves better at withstanding floods and hurricanes. Furthermore, organic vegan farming will halt the runoff of chemical fertilizers that have created monstrous dead zones in the ocean.

Organic soil matter also absorbs CO2 so effectively that the Rodale Institute calls organic vegan farming a powerful strategy to reduce global warming, by up to 40% of all CO2 emissions now in the atmosphere.

Finally, we all benefit from better health because it’s free of toxins and abundant in nutrients, without the genetic modification and cancer-causing pesticides.

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India halts genetically modified food crops - 2 Mar 2010

Citing concerns for human health and the environment, the government of India has decided not to introduce genetically modified brinjals (eggplant), the nation’s third most important crop after potatoes and tomatoes.

India’s Environment and Forestry Minister Jairam Ramesh stated that although the measure was proposed as a way to stabilize food prices and ease impacts of climate change such as declining yields, concerns expressed by environmentalists and farmers as well as the potential hazard to public health made it too large a risk.

Research thus far has shown that besides human health risks, genetically modified crops also require increased application of pesticides and have not been noted to produce higher crop yields.

We thank Your Excellency and India for your careful consideration and wish to safeguard human health. Wishing that organic plant-based farming may continue to flourish in India, providing wholesome nourishment for all.

In a March 2009 videoconference in Mexico, Supreme Master Ching Hai cautioned about the effects of such practices as genetic modification, offering an alternative that also addresses climate change.

Supreme Master Ching Hai: Genetically modified food is not very good for health. We don't need that. If we don't raise animals, we have enough food, extra for everybody.

Even to feed freely to the hungry people, free of charge. And still have 1 billion portions left over. And organic farming yields plentiful food and, at the same time, absorbs 40% of CO2.

So, organic farming is good for everything and good for us, and good for the farmers to have a new job, good for our health, good for the planet.

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Millions of hunger-afflicted in Niger and Chad - 1 Jun 2010

Prolonged drought since harvest time last year has parched crops, leaving millions of people facing food shortages across Africa’s Sahel region. On Friday, May 28, the United Nations World Food Program warned that 10 million people will be facing hunger over the next three months, primarily in Niger and Chad, with numbers that could worsen if rains don’t arrive in time for the September harvest.

While some 8 million are affected in Niger, representing almost half the nation’s population, the 2 million experiencing food shortages in Chad could be considered worse afflicted because the region has received so little international attention. In both countries, children are some of the most affected.

A recent UN report on Chad stated, “As always, children will be the first ones to suffer and, if nothing is done,
they will be the first to die.” Some are migrating to places like the Nigerian city of Katsina where they often beg for food while seeking work to support their families.

Meanwhile, aid agencies like Oxfam are distributing cereals and grains, with Niger’s government also sending out 21,000 tons of food in an attempt to provide adequate sustenance until the next supplies or rains arrive.

Many thanks, United Nations World Food Program and other agencies as well as all the government and non-governmental efforts for your constant support and donations to comfort those most in need.

We pray for the blessing of abundant gentle rain and that the lives of African brethren stricken by these harrowing events of drought and hunger may soon be eased through humanity’s benevolent actions toward all beings on Earth.

Speaking during a May 2009 videoconference in Togo, Supreme Master Ching Hai addressed the treacherous tolls of global warming in Africa while reminding of the actions needed to reverse such changes and stabilize the planet.

Supreme Master Ching Hai: Sadly, global warming is affecting African countries in all the severest and some of the most visible ways. Rivers and lakes are drying up in Africa.

There are water crises from Sierra Leone to South Africa. Zimbabwe, Somalia, Mauritius, Mozambique, and Sudan – just to name a few – are experiencing worsened droughts that make it difficult to plant crops, thus adding to food shortages and prices rising.

There are more frequent droughts, heat waves, floods, storms, frosts, freezes, and locusts than before. These impacts of climate change increase food insecurity and the food crisis in Africa.

The United Nations is afraid that hundreds of millions of people in Africa are at risk. So let us try our best to help remind and encourage our leaders to do something.

If the world becomes vegan as a group, we can remedy the disasters that affect us globally.

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Severe food shortage follows lack of rainfall in Syria - 27 Jun 2010

Thanks to recent donations from nations and organizations such as Ireland and the European Union， the United Nations World Food Program has been able to distribute food to some ２００，０００ people who have been hard hit by drought in the last four years.

However， the agency has noted that １１０，０００ people are still in need of emergency aid. Weather conditions combined with inefficient water use has resulted in diminished wheat output in some areas， while others have been turned into wastelands. Although a government wheat subsidy program has increased output somewhat， tens of thousands of wells dug illegally by people desperate for the resource have damaged the water table as the country， once a wheat exporter， has had to import the grain for the past three years.

Recent estimates state that up to a million people have fled to such cities as the capital Damascus， seeking other livelihoods to support their families. The World Food Program has alerted that further distribution of such staples as rice， oil， flour， chickpeas and salt are pending additional funding.

With our appreciation and Heaven’s blessings for the concerned endeavors of the European Commission， Ireland and the United Nations World Food Program， we pray for the welfare of those in Eastern Syria， as well as all other areas hit by climate-related weather catastrophes and food shortages. May the abundance of a balanced ecosphere soon grace every population as we step quickly in unison to adopt sustainable lifestyles that support all life on Earth.

During an October ２００９ videoconference in Germany， Supreme Master Ching Hai reminded as on previous occasions of the need to be responsible stewards of our planet， offering a solution to safeguarding the world’s precious resources.

Supreme Master Ching Hai: With current droughts and water shortages already affecting millions and only expected to get worse， worse and worse.

But even though our predicament is very grave， we do still have time if we act now. And the solution is still very simple. It’s the vegan diet – no animal products.

Scientists have found that each person eating a meat and dairy based diet uses around ４，５００ gallons of water per day，compared to 3００ gallons per day for a vegan diet. This also means that １ pound of animal protein requires １００ times more water to produce than １ pound of grain protein. Over the course of a year， the vegan diet saves approximately １.５ million gallons of water per person.

This is the key. If everyone switches to this beneficial lifestyle， our planet will be cooled in no time，scientifically speaking and my promise.

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Chadians chew on leaves to stave off hunger - 12 Jul 2010

A combination of climate change effects and the worst drought in 50 years has led international charity Oxfam to forecast that approximately two million people in Chad will be facing hunger this summer.

Chadian Farmer (F): For the last 10 years, all of our hard work in our fields has produced nothing. Because there has been little rain, so we have to buy maize from the market.

Dr.Marzio Babille – UNICEF Representative in Chad (e): Unprecedented impact of lack of rainfalls has accelerated vulnerability in malnutrition rates.

Zara Hassan – Chadian Farmer (F): Nothing grows here. The sand has taken over and there is nothing left. The soil has gone and the land is now covered with sand.

With lands left barren by desertification, a process driven in part by deforestation for fuel as well as overgrazing by increased livestock populations, the region’s limited resources have been further strained by Arab herders moving south in search of water and food for their animals.

Increased tensions over shortages have even led to violence in some cases. Chief Engineer Nekarambaya Kamndo of eastern Chad’s Am Dam District noted vastly decreased rainfall in recent years as well as a change in landscape and climate.

He stated, “The desert is advancing. The sand is moving onto the streets like it hasn’t before. And it’s very hot. I’ve never known it so hot.”

Our heartfelt sympathies are with the suffering Chadian people as we pray for the blessing of gentle rain and that our swift steps toward sustainable lifestyles soon relieve such inadequacies in Chad and other drought-stricken areas of our globe.

Speaking during an April 2009 videoconference in South Korea, Supreme Master Ching Hai addressed the tragic repercussions of food shortages, as well as the simplest and most efficient solution.

Supreme Master Ching Hai: All this is important because if humans are in shortage of food or of water, then conflicts, of course, will break out. When our family members are in danger of hunger or thirst, maybe we would do anything to bring food to them.

So reluctantly, some virtuous or good people might even go astray and cause conflict between neighbors and then, on a larger scale, it will cause conflict between nations. Scientists have documented that one serving of beef takes more than a thousand gallons of water to produce. By contrast, the vegan diet uses about one-tenth of that amount.

So, the best way to prepare for conflict is to take complete prevention.
The vegan diet will help us to achieve that goal, and almost immediately.

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Changing climate disrupts wheat production in Europe - 12 Jul 2010

Conditions of severe drought and the loss of nine million hectares of crops thus far prompted government officials in Russia to declare a state of emergency across 14 regions on Friday, July 9.

With southeastern and central Europe reporting crop damage due to floods, countries such as Russia, France and Romania have reported that excessive heat and water shortages are the reason for recent reductions in wheat harvest forecasts. This news has in turn caused global wheat prices to rise to their highest levels since winter.

Meanwhile, the United Nations anticipates that agricultural crop losses overall are likely to be much higher in 2010 in part due to changing weather patterns.

We appreciate these reports from the United Nations, Russia, France, Romania and countries for helping us to understand the urgency of our food security situation. Let us all act now in the most eco-conscious ways to restore balance to our environment and ensure adequate sustenance for all.

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Russia faces crop loss with severe drought - 16 Jul 2010

With the government’s declaration of a state of emergency across 16 regions, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has called for urgent efforts to help farmers survive a record period of dry conditions.
Central parts of Russia as well as the Volga region, southern Urals and Siberia have been enduring extreme heat since June, with temperatures frequently reaching 40 degrees Celsius in the shade.

Nine million hectares of crops, representing a fifth of the total area sown have been destroyed thus far, making these the worst losses in 130 years. With grain supplies for cattle down by 50%, the government is working to prevent the desperate measure of a mass slaughter as concerns also rise that bread prices might soon increase in the country that is normally a major world grain exporter.

To help offset the severe financial impact to growers, which includes the threat of bankruptcy for some, President Medvedev has offered to extend US$1.3 billion in loan credit.

He stated, “This is a big problem. There has been no anomaly like this in our country for decades.
We need to figure out how we can preserve at least some of the crops.” Our respectful appreciation, Your Excellency and Russia, for your compassionate actions to help the nation’s farmers.

We are saddened to know of the drought’s significant effects as we pray for rain’s blessings and the improved welfare of the people. Let us all join in sustainable, Earth-saving actions to restore verdant conditions in Russia and the world. Supreme Master Ching Hai has frequently expressed concern for the critical and widespread dangers posed by such crises, as during a September 2009 videoconference in Peru, while at the same time highlighting the most comprehensive solution.

Supreme Master Ching Hai: Some countries and communities have to cope with worsened drought situations. There is not enough water to raise crops or even to drink. Every child, family, and society will be affected in some way by this experience of trauma and tragedy.

The wisest action would be to fix the situation we have now and prevent further damage, then we won’t even have to worry about the future. All the leading scientists we have spoken to tell us one and the same: that we must handle it now, not tomorrow. The smartest way would be to stop the worsening of global warming by being vegan. It sounds very simple but it is the best solution, the most effective and the effect of it will be felt almost immediately.

Moreover, the problems we already face now – such as the warming atmosphere, water shortage, food scarcity, desertification - we can quickly eliminate by stopping meat production. Stop it now, no further! So please, before the situation gets any more out of hand – let’s choose the vegan diet.

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US agriculture is already feeling the effects of climate change - 2 Aug 2010

A four-member panel of scientists organized by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), with the support of US Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa, has warned of an impending agriculture calamity as crops are impacted by climate change.

Senior research scientist Dr. Cynthia Rosenzweig of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) explained that the nation’s Northwest and Southeast regions are already seeing significantly reduced rainfall, while other areas are seeing higher-than-average rainfall, both of which adversely affect crop yields.

Meanwhile, abnormal temperatures are also hampering the proper development of crops. The panel further warned that unstable agriculture could double grain prices by 2050, which could set off civil unrest.

These experts called for mitigation strategies to curb anticipated crop failures and low yields across the globe.

Alarming as they are, your warnings are appreciated, Dr. Rosenzweig and colleagues. Let us quickly make the greenest, most sustainable switch to the organic vegan lifestyle to ensure global food and overall security.

Supreme Master Ching Hai has frequently emphasized such critical dangers associated with global warming, as during an August 2009 videoconference in Thailand, where she also highlighted the fastest solution.

Supreme Master Ching Hai: The leaders of the nations must do something. The people of all nations must do something. Just because we can still sit here pretty and talk, just because in our area there is not yet water shortage or food prices going up, doesn’t mean it will not happen to us soon.

We have to do something to avoid the tragedy that is already happening to billions of other people. There are one billion people hungry already because of climate change, and short of water and food.

Please take action now. Very simple. Just be veg. Just be veg is truly enough for now. And it will be enough for a long future to come.

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Drought jeopardizes crops and creates water scarcity in Âu Lạc (Vietnam) - 13 Aug 2010

Months of dry conditions through the month of July, coupled with temperatures of up to 39 degrees Celsius, have left at least 25,000 hectares of rice destroyed, with an additional 70,000 hectares damaged in the north central regions.

Record low water levels in rivers and reservoirs have also hampered irrigation efforts, and even residents living near rivers have had to walk several kilometers to fetch water or pay for it locally.

In southern Âu Lạc, saltwater intrusion into the Mekong Delta has become a serious threat to the Vị Thanh City area.

Tens of thousands of hectares of crops are in jeopardy, and the city’s 200,000 residents awoke one day to find that the tap water had become salty and unusable, with fresh water that had to be purchased at high prices for cooking and washing.

In an effort to provide relief for the shortages, Prime Minister Nguyễn Tấn Dũng recently announced that 7,100 tons of rice would be allocated from national reserves to four provinces hardest hit by the drought.

We deeply appreciate the efforts of Your Excellency to alleviate the suffering of fellow citizens. Our prayers for restored bountiful harvests throughout Âu Lạc and the world as we step quickly to adopt sustainable lifestyles in harmony with nature.

During a November 2009 videoconference in Thailand, Supreme Master Ching Hai addressed with deep concern the situations being faced by the people of Âu Lạc, explaining the most effective solution.

Supreme Master Ching Hai: Moreover, as the glaciers continue to melt, the great Mekong River will begin to dry, because there’s no more support of flowing water – meaning further hardship for farmers as water becomes more scarce.

And the drought, combined with sea level rise would cause further salt water contamination. What kind of world will we have left if these global warming changes continue?

What kind of drinking water, what kind of air we will have, even if the rice plants can grow in salt water? This is a complex ecosystem with a long, long history of supporting human life, so, there is no easy answer. But the most effective one I know, which is so simple, easy and also scientifically proven, is to adopt the meat-free, animal-free lifestyle. If everyone stops the killing and consumption of meat, these destructive changes
will also stop.

It is the best thing to help us, to help the farmers and the entire country of Âu Lạc (Vietnam), not just the Mekong Delta.

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Black Sea drought now poses threat to crops through 2011 - 16 Aug 2010

Extremely dry weather aggravated by recent wildfires has adversely affected growing conditions in the normally flourishing Black Sea region, also known as the “bread basket” of the area.

As a result, both Russia and Ukraine, the world’s fourth and sixth largest wheat exporters, respectively, have announced export bans to conserve national food supplies.

With the drought in Russia being the worst in a century, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin stated that the effects may be so severe that the export ban will need to extend beyond the year’s end.

He went on to state that the grain crop forecast could fall to as low as 60 million tons, down from the previous week’s 75 million ton forecast. The affected growing regions are currently not planning to sow seeds for the winter 2010 crops this autumn, which normally amounts to 40% of the country’s grain harvest, and will focus on spring 2011 crops later instead.

Winter grain sowing is also being delayed in Ukraine, where high temperatures and absence of rain have parched the soil’s sowing layer. Officials have also stated that grain surpluses from prior years may need to be used to help to avoid internal food shortages.

Our appreciation, Your Excellency and governments of Russia and Ukraine for your efforts to cope with this serious situation affecting not only Russia but global food supplies.

Let us all act in more sustaining ways to protect food security worldwide, including a foremost shift to the environmentally restoring organic vegan diet.

Supreme Master Ching Hai has often expressed concern about climate change impacts on global food production, as discussed in a 2009 videoconference in Togo.

Supreme Master Ching Hai: Zimbabwe, Somalia, Mauritius, Mozambique, and Sudan – just to name a few – are experiencing worsened droughts that make it difficult to plant crops, thus adding to food shortages and prices rising.

Add to this, desertification and deforestation that further degrade the land. Increased temperatures mean erratic rainfall – either too little or too much at a time – so we have ravaging floods that drown the crops and fires that burn the forest.

These impacts of climate change increase food insecurity and the food crisis. It is best if government leaders can be part of the solution. They can assist in helping people to understand why it is so important to make the change to the veg diet.

So let us try our best to help remind and encourage our leaders to do something.

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Russian grain export ban affects Egypt and other regions - 18 Aug 2010

With recent record heat waves, prolonged drought and wildfires damaging 25% of Russia’s crops, the government’s decision to ban 2010 exports in order to ensure adequate grain supplies is in turn likely to cause hardship in the Middle East and Northern Africa, where Russia’s largest exports are made.

Many of these countries, such as Egypt, where 40% of the people live on less than US$2 per day, rely on provisions of subsidized bread to maintain social peace.

The loss of Russia’s wheat this year will inevitably result in rising grain prices, which could have obvious adverse effects. Egypt, which in 2009 imported a third of Russia’s overseas wheat supplies and relied on Russia for 59% of her wheat imports, currently has a four month supply of the grain, and has issued requests to obtain wheat from other countries.

However, the government states that it expects the higher grain prices will cost up to US$705 million, an amount that will hinder its ability to begin reducing debt.

Meanwhile, with Russia’s heat wave being labeled the most extreme in a millennium by the country’s Meteorological Center, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told the nation’s Security Council that a change in approach is needed to address the more and more obvious effects of global warming.

He stated, “Frankly, what is going on with the world’s climate at the moment should incite us all (I mean world leaders and heads of public organizations) to make a more strenuous effort to fight global climate change.”

We are relieved to learn Egypt has enough supply for the next few months, and pray for adequate sustenance for all in need. Let us all act to conserve our precious grain supplies and stabilize the climate by adopting sustainable lifestyles such as the plant-based diet.

During a July 2008 telephone interview with Mr. James Bean, host of the US-based Spiritual Awakening Radio station, Supreme Master Ching Hai addressed the connection between global warming, food insecurity and our dietary choices.

Supreme Master Ching Hai: So, it is meat diet that really causes the shortage of food. The grain that we feed the livestock alone is enough for 2 billion people.

And it’s not just about food shortage; it breeds war, because when people are hungry and insecure about food, and famine everywhere, they might just do anything. And that’s why we have war. So, I think a vegetarian diet, it is truly necessary for us to survive.

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Adapting agriculture to mitigate climate change - 20 Aug 2010

Adapting agriculture to mitigate climate change.

From droughts in Mexico to floods in Pakistan and deadly heat in the US, extreme weather events are increasing due to global warming. Experts have stated concern that these could lead to instability in global agriculture markets and even conflicts over food, similar to those seen in 2007 and 2008.

In a recent report, the World Bank studied the impacts of climate change in-depth for the countries Mozambique, Ethiopia, Ghana, Bangladesh, Âu Lạc (Vietnam), Samoa, and Bolivia, and estimated that the cost for all the most vulnerable countries to adapt to climate change will be US$70-100 billion per year until 2050.

Warren Evans – Director of Environment Department at World Bank (M): The reality is that climate change is a development issue. The poorest of the poor tend to be the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, whether it’s sea level rise, drought, flooding. They also are the least resilient because of their impoverished state.

VOICE: The World Bank’s new study was presented by Environment Department Director Warren Evans, who explained that economic development is the most cost-effective method of climate change adaptation. In particular, developing sustainable agriculture would make both adaptation and mitigation of climate change efficient, a point confirmed by a 2009 Dutch study which found that a global shift to an organic vegan diet

would save world governments 80% of climate mitigation costs by 2050, or a savings of US$32 trillion.

Mr. Evans (M): Agriculture is one of the opportunities for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. There is a tremendous amount of carbon stored in soils and in grasses and so on. Right now, that is not a part of the equation in terms of getting financing to developing countries for reducing their emissions, but there’s a tremendous opportunity to shift agricultural practices, so that carbon is stored.

Supreme Master TV (F): And what kind of practices are you talking about?

Mr. Evans (M): Well, a simple one is no-till farming, where you reduce the amount of exposure of the soils to the air, to the atmosphere. You retain a higher level of organic composition and of vegetative growth on top of the soils, proven over and over again to be a highly effective system for production.

Other systems involve changing the way the water’s managed, and in some cases it’s a matter of changing crops.

VOICE: Our appreciation Director Evans and World Bank for indicating ways to support the most impacted countries in mitigating global warming. May all nations help to make rapid and effective changes to stop further climate change.

During a May 2009 videoconference in Togo, Supreme Master Ching Hai discussed organic vegan farming practices and their benefits for the planet at this crucial time.

Supreme Master Ching Hai: Organic farming preserves topsoil and keeps water bodies clean, and if used worldwide, would have the potential to absorb and store approximately 40% of all present-day CO2 emissions each year.

The other aspects of vegan organic farming that are beneficial including things like crop rotation, mulching, and natural fertilizers. Other methods such as mulching and even a new method called no-till organic farming help retain moisture and reduce soil erosion considerably.

So, in general, vegan organic farming follows a philosophy of living in harmony with nature and protection for the planet and all beings. I highly encourage you to pursue vegan organic farming methods, if at all possible. Of course, it is possible.

It has to be possible for our own survival. The vegan diet is the real key and is the essence of the change that is needed for saving our planet.

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Accounting for nitrogen in food sustainability - 26 Aug 2010

Accounting for nitrogen in food sustainability.

In a recent study, University of Pittsburg environmental scientists Dr. Xue Xiaobo and Professor Amy Landis in Pennsylvania, USA calculated the “nitrogen footprints” of various foods.

They then compared this measure of environmental impact with the same foods’ carbon footprint. Nitrogen pollution is created from nitrogen and phosphorous fertilizer runoff as well as nitrogen contained in livestock manure, both of which are washed by rain into rivers and out to bays and the ocean, where they spur the growth of algae, which dies and is then consumed by bacteria.

The oxygen-depriving effects of the bacteria create the often-massive dead zones such as the 8,000-square-mile area near the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico.

Of all the foods measured by the scientists, meat and dairy products topped the list as the most nitrogen-damaging to the ecosystem, while plant-based foods had the lowest impact.

Our appreciation, Drs. Landis and Xue for helping us to understand the environmental damage caused by nitrogen and its primary source in animal products.

May such insights motivate us all to adopt the truly eco-friendly plant-based lifestyle. During a November 2009 videoconference in Washington, DC, USA, Supreme Master Ching Hai explained the harms of livestock waste to both the environment and lives while suggesting the simplest way to reverse the problem.

Supreme Master Ching Hai: Livestock produces 130 times as much waste as the human population in the US. Can you imagine that? In Virginia State, even the poultry farms are producing 1.5 times polluting nitrogen, more than all the people living in the same area. We are killing ourselves.

One time, an 8-acre large,such pig manure lagoon burst in North Carolina, spilling 25 million gallons of this poisonous waste, twice the volume of the notorious Exxon-Valdez oil spill.

Hundreds of millions of fish in the state’s New River were killed instantly due to the nitrates in the waste, with further harmful effects once the contamination reached the ocean.

Not only that, we have the enormous dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico, the size of New Jersey, which suffocates all marine life there. And this is overwhelmingly due to the nitrogen runoff from the Midwest, from the animal wastes and the fertilizers for the animal feed crops. This waste is toxic.
It contains antibiotics, hormones and pesticides, and 10 to 100 times the concentration of deadly pathogens like E. coli and salmonella compared to human waste.

There is a very good reason to abolish meat, fish, eggs and dairy – all the animal products al together. We must stop animal production now and at all cost if we want to keep this planet.

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Global plant growth in decline due to climate change-induced drought - 6 Sep 2010

Although it was once observed that global warming-induced temperature rises and longer growing seasons benefited plant growth, a new study from the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has found that the droughts caused by warming result in overall decline.

So while plants in some northern latitudes may continue to grow, their southern latitude counterparts are decreasing, with an overall loss effect that impacts crops and thus food security as well.

Study co-author Dr. Steven Running of the University of Montana, biologist and co-author of the report, stated, “This is a pretty serious warning that warmer temperatures are not going to endlessly improve plant growth.”

Many thanks, Dr. Running and National Aeronautics and Space Administration study scientists for revealing this potentially disastrous decline of the world’s flora due to human-caused climate change.

Let us all speedily adopt effective measures to cool the planet and restore a verdant ecosphere. Foreseeing the increasing impact of global warming on all life, during a 2008 videoconference in Thailand, Supreme Master Ching Hai pointed out the most crucial way to restore nature’s harmony and thus save the planet.

Supreme Master Ching Hai: Nature can help to absorb some of the carbon dioxide, but we overload nature, so we have a problem right now and we continue to have problem if we are not doing anything to prevent further destruction of the planet.

It’s just the meat industry that causes the most pollution for the planet, that the planet is overloaded, nature is overloaded. Everything warms up because of meat and animal products.

So, if we stop the meat production, if we stop eating meat and harming the animals, the good benevolent atmosphere will change everything into a beneficial planet for us.

Even before, our planet was good, but if we change into vegetarian diet, this planet will become a paradise, will be plentiful, will be very happy for everybody to live on.

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Unpredictable weather threatens stability of food supplies - 9 Sep 2010

On Tuesday, September 7, Sri Lankan-based International Water Management Institute (IWMI) presented a report to an international gathering of scientists at World Water Week in Stockholm, Sweden.

Warning that climate change is bringing more erratic rainfall, the report stated that the unreliable timing and variable amounts of rain are having increasingly noticeable effects on food security and economic growth.

This is due in part to the fact that approximately 66% of crops in Asia are rain-fed only, rather than irrigated, while in Africa a full 94% are rain-fed. Highlighting the very recent examples of extremely dry conditions leading to this summer’s devastating Russian fires and the opposite in the calamitous Pakistani floods, Sunita Narain, head of the Center for Science and Environment (CSE) in India, stated, “We are getting to a point where we are getting more water, more rainy days, but it's more variable, so it leads to droughts and it leads to floods.”

The scientists recommended more investment in water storage options as well as water management.
We thank the International Water Management Institute, Ms. Narain and other international scientists for reminding of the connection between climate and water imbalances that affect urgent food supplies.

Let us all work to restore natural harmony through sustainable daily actions that ensure our planetary survival. During a September 2009 videoconference in Peru, Supreme Master Ching Hai expressed her concern for humanity in light of the growing global food crisis, while also emphasizing the most comprehensive solution.

Supreme Master Ching Hai: We can see everywhere reflections of a planet in trouble, with monsoons and flooding in one location and people losing their harvests and drinking water to drought in another.

One way that our world can be preserved and stabilized is through everyone’s change to a compassionate lifestyle, choosing organic vegan diet, which not only eliminates methane and other toxic, heat-trapping greenhouse gases emissions from the livestock industry, but the organic part takes care of harmful fertilizer chemicals and allows the soil to absorb a huge amount of atmospheric CO2.

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UN calls for governments to prepare for greater volatility in food supplies - 11 Sep 2010

Following recent devastating crop losses in Russia and Pakistan due to climate-related drought, fires and floods, public awareness of the global food supply’s vulnerability has driven food commodity prices up. This has created tension and conflict that in some cases has resulted in deadly violence, as in Mozambique where protests were sparked when bread prices suddenly increased by 30%.

Meanwhile, Europe’s wheat prices are now 60% higher than in 2009, and Russia just announced the extension of a ban on wheat exports for another year due to the nation’s severe drought, inadequate harvest, and economic inflation.

Farmers there, for example, have experienced the driest season in 130 years, with experts having observed cracks in the soil so dry that no moisture can be reached without digging an entire meter into the ground.

This year’s drought has in fact already threatened next year’s harvest as farmers must plant now to reap a fruitful crop, but cannot do so without rain. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has responded to these concerns by calling a September 24 meeting to discuss how to best address this and potential future instabilities in food supplies.

Speaking of the current food situation, UN FAO Assistant Director-General for Economic and Social Development, Hafez Ghanem, warned that even though grain production overall this year is the third highest on record despite the recent crop failures, future supplies could be jeopardized by extreme weather events or further export bans, causing more global price volatility. Grain prices have also been affected by demands for meat, with livestock consuming more than one-third of global grain supplies during the 2008/2009 season.

We thank the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization for your efforts to help stabilize global food markets through a better understanding of the current situation and effective planning for the future.

Let us all work together to shift food policies in a wise and sustainable direction for the security of all people. During an August 2009 videoconference in Thailand, Supreme Master Ching Hai emphasized the most simple and effective remedy to this mounting global food shortage problem.

Supreme Master Ching Hai: The leaders of the nations must do something. The people of all nations must do something. Just because we can still sit here pretty and talk, just because in our area there is not yet water shortage or food prices going up, doesn’t mean it will not happen to us soon.

We have to do something to avoid the tragedy that is already happening to billions of other people. There are one billion people hungry already because of climate change, and short of water and food. Please take action now. Very simple. Just be veg. Just be veg is truly enough for now. And it will be enough for a long future to come.

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Climate change affecting India's famed Assam tea - 8 Jan 2010

While the high hills and normally abundant rainfall in northeastern Assam state create an ideal environment for the region's distinctive tea, scientists have noted a 20% decrease in rainfall and a full one degree temperature rise over the past 60 years.

According to the Tea Board of India, tea yields have also decreased, from 512,000 tons in 2007 to just 445,000 in 2009. Furthermore, these decreases have occurred despite the addition of new areas for planting as well as entirely new tea gardens.

Dr. Mridul Hazarika, director of Tocklai Tea Research, the world's oldest tea research station, stated, “This is an indication of the seriousness of the threat.”

Dr. Hazarika, Tocklai Tea Research, Tea Board of India, and growers, we appreciate this alert to the disturbing changes experienced by Assam growers. May your insightful information help bring developments that assist the region while governments and individuals alike act urgently to reverse climate change.

Addressing the issue of unpredictable weather conditions and their effect on harvests during a May 2009 videoconference in Togo, Supreme Master Ching Hai highlighted the most sustainable practice needed to ensure the restoration of environmental stability.

Supreme Master Ching Hai : Increased temperatures mean erratic rainfall - either too little or too much at a time - so we have ravaging floods that drown the crops and fires that burn the forest.

If you're a farmer, you already can feel that the climate is in trouble. There are more frequent droughts, heat waves, floods, storms, frosts, freezes, and locusts than before.

If the world becomes vegan as a group, we can remedy the disasters that affect us globally.

The planet will begin repairing itself in astonishing ways that scientists would be surprised. For example, the ice will stop melting and return to the way it was, green life will appear again, the oceans will be healed as the rainfall and temperature begin to regulate themselves again, produce restored balance.

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Global food prices reach all time high - 27 Jan 2011

Caused in part by crop failures linked to various climate-related natural disasters along with fuel price increases, a global food price index monitored by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has surpassed a 2008 record high, with global corn prices up 52%, wheat up 49% and soy up 28% relative to 2010.

Rising food costs have already led to recent rallies and unrest in Morocco, Algeria, Jordan, Mozambique and Yemen. Officials caution that the situation is becoming dangerous, with climate change expected to decrease crop yields due to more extreme weather events. Following recent widespread and damaging floods in Australia, some food items have risen 20% in price in cities such as Sydney and Melbourne.

The FAO cautions that those who continue to be most at risk are in the developing world, where an average 70% of household income is spent on food.

Guriya Devi, Indian housewife: Lentils cost almost $1.5 a kilo, so do you think we can eat them? The price used to be 60 cents - we could buy them then, now we can't even think of it. What can we do with the income we have? Poor people like us are suffering.

Baiju, Indian taxi driver The price of lentils and rice has gone up so much that we've stopped eating lentils. Even potatoes have become expensive… Our family survives by eating just vegetables and rice.

In Kenya, the price of staples such as maize and beans have spiked, causing most of the northern Kenyan population to be at risk of starvation. The nation's Red Cross reported that these conditions come after crop failures in the three consecutive planting seasons, with young children, expectant mothers, and elderly suffering the worst impacts of malnutrition. International relief agencies have been trying to distribute emergency food supplies in the area.

Our thanks for the concerned alerts as well as the efforts of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, the Kenyan Red Cross and others in addressing the challenging situation faced by people across the globe due to increasing food prices. May we step together in sustainable, climate-stabilizing actions to ensure worldwide sustenance, especially for the most vulnerable.

Supreme Master Ching Hai has often addressed concerns of high food prices and shortages while encouraging humanity's considerate participation toward alleviating these problems, as during an October 2009 videoconference in Indonesia.

Supreme Master Ching Hai: There are 1.02 billion people with not enough food in the world. While we are sitting here in safety and comfort, and have sufficient food for ourselves and our family, our neighboring people, our world co-citizens, more than one billion of them, are living in poverty, in hunger, in thirst. No sufficient water, no clean water, no food to eat. Children are dying every few seconds. Statistically, every five seconds one child dies of hunger.

Besides, we are facing a food shortage with high food prices. The most important first step is to stop buying and eating meat, fish, eggs, dairy, and any animal products for you and for your family's sake,

for the natural resources' sake, and to plant the seeds for a better agricultural system for everyone. In this way, not only can all the farmers prosper - we help them in this way - but everyone will prosper and enjoy a long and thriving life.

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World food prices increase 3.4%, reaching record highs.- 10 Feb 2011

Announcing this December 2010 rise in food prices, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) stated that it was the steepest since records began in 1990. Rice prices shot up to a 27-month high in countries such as Bangladesh and Indonesia, two of the largest rice importers in Asia, with Bangladesh doubling imports due to panicked buying.

In Sri Lanka, where floods have just displaced over a million people, rice prices were also up amidst grave concerns over the fate of the staple crop after tens of thousands of acres of agricultural land were destroyed. Floods in Victoria, Australia have also devastated potential harvests of fruit and vegetable growers, while heavy rains and floods damaged swaths across southern Africa, with Lesotho having already lost 60% of her crops.

China’s food producing regions are also suffering from the worst drought in 60 years, decreasing yields across 4 million hectares. In an effort to address both the food shortages and the escalation of tensions that could result in conflict, the FAO along with France, current leader of the G20 group, have called for more regulations to help stabilize prices and food supplies.

During a joint press conference, FAO head Jacques Diouf noted the unrest that has already been seen in some parts of the world, as French Farm Minister Bruno Le Maire stated, “We share the same view that today, the real risk of a global food crisis exists.” South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak similarly highlighted the need to address this emerging issue as he stated, “The likelihood of a global food crisis is rising due to climate change. We need to set up national strategies and research to tackle the issue.”

We appreciate the concern of the United Nations, South Korea and governments worldwide seeking ways to stabilize this grave situation on which lives and livelihoods depend.

May humane and constructive food production policies be swiftly implemented to ensure the nourishing sustenance of people. Speaking about rising food costs and those who suffer from hunger, Supreme Master Ching Hai during an October 2009 videoconference in Germany expressed deep concern while offering a solution that would address all needs.

Supreme Master Ching Hai : According to a recent announcement by the United Nations, the number of people going hungry across the world in 2009, this year, has now officially exceeded 1 billion.

This is due in part to the steeply rising food costs that are part of our global economic crisis. However, this is directly related to meat consumption. Because if all the grains fed to livestock animals were grown for human consumption instead, then the amounts of food harvested for humans would be higher and prices lower.

Moreover, global warming has resulted in many instances of documented extreme weather, leading to devastating crop losses and also drive food prices sky high. So, if everyone turns to the plant-based diet, we have more food immediately and an easing of conditions like drought and flooding, with abundant harvests and food supplies quickly restored.

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Global food prices rise to dangerous levels - 18 Feb 2011

Stating that prices are 29% higher than one year ago, with increases of 15% over the past four months alone, the World Bank has issued an alarm as it notes that food costs currently are only 3% lower than the peak prices of June 2008, when food riots had erupted across the developing world.

The largest recent increases have been seen in global wheat prices, which doubled from June 2010 to January 2011, while the price of maize jumped a sharp 73%, and higher prices placed on sugar and cooking oils, as well as vegetables in China and India, and beans in some African nations.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala - Managing Director, World Bank Group (M): According to our research at the World Bank, the recent food price hikes have thrown another 44 million people into extreme poverty. I feel we've now entered a danger zone.

VOICE: The UN Food and Agriculture Organization has indicated that the recent upward direction in prices has come from a combination of factors, including increased consumption of meat and dairy products, speculative trading, soil erosion, food crops used for biofuels, and decreased or failed harvests due to climate change effects such as water scarcity.

Prolonged widespread drought in northern China, for instance, caused wheat crop failures that recently sparked concerns about the impact on global food prices. If China were ever to have to import a large amount of wheat, global prices for the grain would surge and add to the strain already being felt worldwide.

Shanghai-based agriculture analyst Lief Chiang of Rabobank noted that not only China's drought, but also other disasters in late 2010 have driven up global wheat prices, such as floods in Australia, drought in Russia and an unusually early frost in Canada.

Our thanks, World Bank and United Nations for these reports alerting us to the potential crisis of escalating food prices and global food security. Let us work together to implement solutions that ensure sustainable food supplies for all who are in need.

During an October 2009 videoconference in Hong Kong, Supreme Master Ching Hai addressed the interrelated issues of food production and climate change, explaining the cost-saving solution for both areas. A lot of the news today is not very good due to the effects of global warming. We hear about glaciers melting, water becoming more scarce, rising food shortages, rising food prices with over one billion people going hungry every day, and so forth. The food prices are getting higher and higher nowadays.

Supreme Master Ching Hai : As it has already been mentioned, recent research shows that more than 50% of emissions, which heat up our planet, which put our lives in danger, are from the livestock industry.

Now, the meat industry is not a very lucrative business, with very high production costs for electricity, water, and grains that have to be wasted to produce the same amount of so-called “food,” which is replaceable and better. We have better food than meat.

I don't know how difficult can it be to replace a piece of meat with a piece of tofu, or a piece of vegetable protein. It looks the same, it tastes even better, is cheaper any way, and good for your health.

The solution is at hand for each and every one of us, which is simply to forego animal products and become vegan - one small change; it's no big deal.

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Scientists warn of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) dire consequences - 5 Mar 2011

Following several years of invited public opinion, which was consistently in favor of a continued moratorium, the United States Food and Agriculture Department recently approved the unregulated planting of Roundup Ready Alfalfa (RRA), a genetically modified alfalfa designed to survive the chemical herbicide Roundup, scientifically known as glyphosate.

However, in a new study scientists have discovered for the first time a very tiny organism within these genetically modified crops that is self-replicating and appears to be able to cause disease in both plants and animals.

With alfalfa being the fourth largest crop in the US, covering millions of acres of land, an independent group of scientists, farming, consumer, and food safety groups are now warning that the unregulated planting of genetically modified alfalfa is at particular risk of spreading disease because it also stands to contaminate natural crops.

Specifically, the diseases associated with the organism found in the GMO alfalfa include a lethal disorder that can afflict soy plants as well as one that appears to cause late miscarriages in farm animals. These findings were presented by Professor Emeritus Don M. Huber (NFT: PhD) of Purdue University in the USA, who coordinates the Emergent Diseases and Pathogens committee as part of the US Department of Agriculture's National Plant Disease Recovery System.

Warning that the cultivation of genetically modified alfalfa could cause irreparable damage to the food supply, Dr. Huber stated, “If indications hold true, we're set up for the greatest disaster that this country or the world has ever seen, that will dwarf any major famine or drought that has ever been recorded.” Previous studies have also linked the use of the herbicide glyphosate with damaging human health such as killing cells and causing infertility. Dr. Huber has called for more research on the effects of GMO crops before the irreversible decision about alfalfa goes into effect.

Dr. Huber and fellow scientists, our sincere thanks for this urgent warning about genetically modified crops. Let us choose beneficial organic vegan farming methods for a world in which human, animal and environmental health prevail. Speaking during an October 2009 videoconference in Hong Kong, Supreme Master Ching Hai mentioned the many hazards of genetically modified organisms along with the need to avoid their use to ensure human welfare.

Supreme Master Ching Hai : Nowadays, many people try to do this so-called genetically modified food, so sometimes we eat vegetarian food and we don't even know that there are animal substances in it.

Scientifically speaking, meat is being linked to diseases of all kind - with cholesterol, obesity, heart disease and strokes.

So, if we put meat or animal substance into vegetables, then we will also have similar effects, more or less. I think we should not mess up with nature and play God. Whatever nature has already offered to us, that is good enough.

There might be more incurable diseases that come from GMOs that we don't even know will happen yet. Right now, even if we just eat the normal meat and we have so many incurable diseases already; if we mix it with vegetables, maybe we will have more incurable diseases and more strange diseases that we don't even know how to deal with in the future. So, it's better to have organic vegan farming method.

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World food prices at record high - 6 Mar 2011

On Thursday, March 3, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) announced that continued unprecedented rises for eight consecutive months has resulted in February's levels being the highest since record-keeping began 20 years ago.

Reasons behind the steep increases are thought to include ongoing adverse weather conditions due to climate change, such as in Canada where rising temperatures have significantly reduced wheat production, in China following severe droughts, and Russia after the catastrophic heat wave and fires.

Other factors include higher oil prices, which affect food production and transportation and internal conflicts as well as disasters that spur governments and individuals to stockpile staples. With the FAO forecasting continued rises for the rest of the year, fears of an unfolding food shortage crisis are being raised.

Highlighting the seriousness of the situation and the need for actions such as curbing market speculation and food-based biofuels, Oxfam's food policy adviser Thierry Kesteloot stated, “Millions more people are sliding into poverty as they struggle to afford basic food supplies. A sit-and-wait attitude among governments in the hope that there will be good harvests over the next few months means gambling with people's lives.”

We are thankful for the concerned observations of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in raising awareness of this global issue.

Our prayers for the enactment of sustainable measures that ensure plentiful sustenance for all. Speaking about the long-term rise in global food prices and shortages during an October 2009 videoconference in Indonesia, Supreme Master Ching Hai expressed concern while offering a comprehensive solution.

Supreme Master Ching Hai : There are 1.02 billion people with not enough food in the world. While we are sitting here in safety and comfort, and have sufficient food for ourselves and our family, our neighboring people, our world co-citizens, more than one billion of them, are living in poverty, in hunger, in thirst. No sufficient water, no clean water, no food to eat. Children are dying every few seconds. Statistically, every five seconds one child dies of hunger.

Besides, we are facing a food shortage with high food prices. The most important first step is to stop buying and eating meat, fish, eggs, dairy, and any animal products for you and for your family's sake,

for the natural resources' sake, and to plant the seeds for a better agricultural system for everyone. In this way, not only can all the farmers prosper - we help them in this way - but everyone will prosper and enjoy a long and thriving life.

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Aulacese (Vietnamese) scientist finds cure to save crops from disease - 6 Mar 2011

With the viral affliction known as black streaked dwarf disease noted to be worsening as weather conditions change with global warming, thousands of hectares of rice, maize and even sorghum have been ruined in countries like Âu Lạc (Vietnam) and China.

However, Hứa Quyết Chiến, an agriculture engineer from Âu Lạc, recently devised a method for protecting crops from this disease. Moreover, his solution has been formulated to be effective without harming the carrier insect, the white back plant hopper.

Following years of research, Mr. Hứa realized that the more pesticides were used on crops, the more the insects became immune, and the more endangered the crops would become, therefore rendering the chemical approach futile in the long run.

While inspecting infected fields in the northern provinces of Hải Dương, Thái Bình, and Hưng Yên, Mr. Hứa subsequently discovered that by injecting plants with salicylic acid, a compound found in the pain reliever aspirin which helps them naturally resist disease, the plants were protected and the insects also not harmed.

His biological product, called Enxin 4.5, has in fact been shown to help prevent 11 harmful insect diseases in rice plants and vegetables and is already being sought after in Bulgaria following successful trials there. With Enxin 4.5 helping save the rice fields of many local farmers who would otherwise have to uproot entire paddies to be rid of disease, Âu Lạc's Science and Technology and Agriculture and Rural Development Ministries recently awarded Mr. Hứa more than US$200,000 to expand its application.

Our sincere accolades, Mr. Hứa Quyết Chiến, for your careful work in developing this safe and practical method to preserve valued food crops. May your endeavors inspire many more such benevolent products that protect the lives of other beings as well as our own health.

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UN warns increasing drought and desertification threatens food insecurity - 7 Mar 2011

As climate change and land degradation are noted to cause increasing drought and aridity across the world, food and water shortages are also growing more severe, linked at times to both conflict and forced migration.

According to Executive Secretary of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification Luc Gnacadja, nearly 2 billion hectares of land has been degraded since 1950, with 12 million hectares being lost annually, which is now increasing with global warming. These changes in turn have caused weather shifts including reduced crop harvests at a time when rising food demands are estimated to require a 70% boost in food production by 2050.

Moreover, 44% of the world's food is produced in arid dryland regions where resource allocation is already an issue. Executive Secretary Gnacadja said, “The drylands are the most conflict-prone zone of the world, and that is not by accident. Instability is fuelled by precisely the quest of people to have access to very scarce resources like productive land and water.”

While vulnerable countries such as Niger, China and India have in recent years been making valiant efforts to curb desertification through activities like large scale-tree plantings, Mr. Gnacadja warns that more direct support is necessary to help those living in the dryland areas maintain food supplies as well as their homes.

He also said that a new desertification monitoring system is being launched in an effort to track land degradation and try to protect against it. Our appreciation, Mr. Gnacadja, the UN Convention to Combat Desertification and all others working to raise awareness of our fragile planet's need for urgent care.

Let us join in more sustainable practices so that the Earth may be renewed to continue supporting the lives of all beings. In a video message presented at a June 2009 climate change conference in Mexico, Supreme Master Ching Hai addressed the alarming consequences of drought and desertification, as well as the most effective way to stop them.

Supreme Master Ching Hai : We have to stop desertification. We can. Desertification is another climate change effect that is linked to livestock, again.

Overgrazing by livestock, which occupies nearly a third of our Earth's land surface worldwide, is a major cause of desertification and other damages, and is responsible for more than 50% of land erosion. Now, we must stop livestock grazing to protect our soil and protect our life.

In short, simply saying no to meat will make us richer, healthier, and most importantly, it will make us a wiser person, and a great hero. Because it is the only timely way that we ensure the survival of our children and grandchildren.

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Global warming endangers food safety - 12 Mar 2011

At the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, USA, international scientists raised their concerns as they reported that global warming could lead to increased levels of food contamination from chemicals, pesticides and fungal pathogens in addition to fast-spreading diseases like cholera and shellfish poisoning.

Along with the illness they cause, such issues could fuel rises in food prices and cause unrest. In the US alone, 38.4 million cases of food poisoning cases are reported every year, with the leading cause of food-related deaths being Salmonella.

Moreover, the scientists stated a finding that for every degree of temperature increase above 6 degrees Celsius, the incidence of food-borne Salmonella poisoning rises by 12%. Climate change-related warming of ocean waters also causes a rise in the bacteria Vibriosis, from which one type of cholera is derived, while every degree Celsius increase in water temperature also lead to a 30-50% higher chance of mercury contamination in fish.

Our appreciation, scientists for raising the issue on how climate change is affecting food safety. We pray that the planet may quickly restore its original climatic balance as we turn to more health-protecting lifestyles.

During a November 2009 videoconference in Mexico, Supreme Master Ching Hai spoke about the common driver of global warming and many diseases to show that both threats can be simultaneously eased.

Supreme Master Ching Hai : These are just a few examples of how climate change is already taking its toll. It's real, madam, it's intensifying; it's not abstract. And please remember, the number 1 cause behind it all is animal agriculture.

Furthermore, the cruelty of the meat industry brings food-borne bacterial infections. Due to the extremely filthy, unhygienic conditions of the meat processing plants, the excrement of the animals is not cleaned and remains on the flesh through processing.

This results in potentially deadly diseases such as by E. coli, salmonella, and Campylobacter, as have been reported worldwide.

Therefore, it is the livestock industry that causes pandemics and, as we already said, is the major cause of global warming. The more pig and poultry farms that exist, the higher their numbers and concentration, the sooner the arrival of the next deadly pandemic.

However, the good news is that the way to end all this is truly even more real and quickly manifested than the problem itself, because each and every person can do something significant to stop global warming. And you know already what that is, right? Yes, the vegan diet.

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The World Food Programme (WFP) promotes vegetable cultivation in Ugandan villages - 7 Apr 2011

The WFP inaugurated a pilot project in November 2010, which uses a gravity flow system to access water from the surrounding hills of Mount Moroto. Presently, 62 families in the villages of Nacelle, Nakambi, Chokoria and Naligoi in Moroto District are benefitting, growing vegetables on four acres.

It is believed that those involved in this project will have enough food for their families during the dry season. They will also be able to gain income by selling the surplus.

Our warmest appreciation, World Food Programme, for your assistance to increase food security for the gentle citizens of Uganda. May all people be blessed with an abundance of plant-based fare and joyful lives on a sustainable Earth.

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United Nations reports on world’s wasted food - 14 May 2011

A new study commissioned by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) shows that a full one-third of the world’s food is wasted, amounting to about 1.3 billion tons of lost or discarded food every year.

The report, compiled by the Swedish Institute for Food and Biotechnology found that developed countries on average waste 222 million tons annually, or almost as much as the net food production of sub-Saharan Africa.

The report provides suggestions for reducing waste and calls for a shift in consumer attitude to purchase only what is needed.

Many thanks, United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and the Swedish Institute for Food and Biotechnology for this eye-opening study. May we all do our part in conserving food and the Earth’s resources to build a sustainable global community.

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Chương trình canh tác tại Cộng hòa Dân chủ Congo giúp tăng gấp ba thu hoạch - 15 tháng 6, 2011

Chương trình Hỗ trợ và Hồi phục Lãnh vực Nông nghiệp, được gọi là PARSAR, cung cấp tiểu nông gia tại Tỉnh tây nam Bandundu, với hạt giống cải tiến, kỹ thuật nông nghiệp mới, và thiết bị. Ngoài ra, PARSAR cải thiện đường lộ để nâng cao tiếp cận đến các khu chợ.

Chúng tôi chân thành tri ân Cộng hòa Dân chủ Congo, về nỗ lực tuyệt vời này để bảo đảm an ninh thực phẩm. Cầu xin tất cả quốc gia phát triển mạnh với dồi dào thực phẩm thực vật bổ dưỡng.

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