Food or Fuel?

This short segment from Reuters discusses the impact of rising food prices on standards of living around the world. This is a terrific snapshot overview of the dynamics at play in the current world food crisis.

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in AMU-ALIGARH-INDIA

FOOD OR FUEL

One of the fundamental guidelines of the Human Existence is building a society based on knowledge, information and human rights. These are three basic instruments for global society and the determinants of progress. There is no doubt that the accepted assumptions have contributed to the development of the whole world and its particular nation-states. The development of science and more and more modern methods of transportation and exploitation of natural resources not only provide profits on a global scale but also generate various dangers for individuals and their existence. The practically unlimited exploitation of natural and agricultural resources and using them and transforming the same for personal use very often violates or significantly limits human rights. Also the development of science, especially of new technologies, gives rise to questions about the limits of agricultural scientific research.
The right to food as a basis for civil society has been a parennial pursuit of entire humanity since its inception on this beautiful planet. Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men. The degree of a Nation’s civilization is marked by its disregard for the necessities of existence. Therefore, civilization goes beyond the regimes of geo-political entities and one of the unpardonable sins in the eyes of civilization is to leave any segment thereof deprived, demonized and dehumanized. No demonization is deviant to divinity on this planet can sustain without being claimed by every adherent of every civilization. Humans are not a herd of animals whom we compassion; they are also the creatures of emotions, equality, dignity, needs and wants etc. If the concept of civilization has any sanctity, validity and certainty or relevance it can only make us larger, freer and more loving. If civilization can not do this, let’s get rid of it. Epistemologically speaking, Human rights of transforming economies and globalization go together in terms of their visibility and divinity but in terms of sociology of economics they are supremely suffering from the sense of alienation and are subjected to economic extravasations, obtuse opportunities and gawky globalization at national and supranational levels.
The theology of globalization is being executed in such a fashion which has, unfortunately, decorticated, denuded and desquamated the right to food and got it brawled in a state of terra-incognita wherein economic evolution, political participation and cozy co-existence among the comity of nation-states has, rightly, become the priority of the Human Rights Movements in a Unipolar World Order. However, right to food is morphed into challenges for others in South-Asia,Asia and Africa and elsewhere and people of these regions are, unfortunately, addressed as perennial parasites, contumate communities and existential atrophy. On the other hand, they are riding on the ebbs and tides of deprivation, dehumanization and demonization crowned with xenophobia in every geo-political entity across the globe devoid of equality, liberty and fraternity sanctified by the desideratum of human rights and same is celestially ordained in the Holy Scriptures of every major civilization. Therefore, these challenges should be churned into advantages, offers and opportunities by the US in tandem with the mandate of Human Rights Movements while ensuring the participation of the International Financial Institutions through the gospel of globalization as it has basically originated from civilizational delineations and have been expounded in the US policy injunctions and further re-affirmed, reiterated and re-oriented by the human rights movements which has made entire process congruent to the gestation of globalization which has, ultimately, indoctrinated the US policies, priorities and programs into ecclesiastical edifices.

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