food

Ingredients

Half a butternut pumpkin or about 1kg or any other pumpkin

1 large onion, chopped

4 cups water

4 chicken or vegetable stock cubes

375ml can of Carnation Evaporated Full Cream milk (not skim)

Half a teaspoon of thyme (or mixed herbs)

Whole black peppers -15 or so

I have been meaning to publish some inexpensive vegetarian recipes
for Centrelink recipients so here is the first one, hopefully in a
series.

Cornish pasties have an interesting history. They were
invented for Cornish tin miners to take to work. The miners would put
the pasty under their shirts and they would stay warm until lunch time.

Cornish miners were the best in the world and were sought
after in many countries. The village of Byng, near Orange, was settled
by Cornish miners in the 1800s. Cobar also attracted large numbers of
Cornish miners.

Australian food producers rush to make a killing in record profits too.
Foregoing the Australian governments windfall tax gains share of those
profits from extortion are a great oportunity to build a campaign to
double australian aid to the third world at no cost to ourselves.

But can Australians really share a common humanity and a "fair go" attitude to the poor of the world ?

I beleive the Australian people would support such a campaign in the growing emergency .But who will build it?

      Use of U.S. Croplands for Biofuels Increases Greenhouse Gases Through  Emissions from Land-Use Change.
      
Most prior studies have found that substituting biofuels for gasoline will  reduce greenhouse gases because biofuels sequester carbon through the
growth of the feedstock. These analyses have failed to count the carbon  emissions that occur as farmers worldwide respond to higher prices and  convert forest and grassland to new cropland to replace the grain (or   cropland) diverted to biofuels.

Huge price rises in world grain prices will threaten the survival of hundreds of millions of people in the third world. The billions of people now living on the value of a dollar or two a day incomes cannot afford to pay the huge increases in food costs that will result from the huge cost rise in basic grains.

There is pretence that Australian grain farmers are the long suffering  “good guys” unfairly forced to compete   in the world grain markets with subsidised grains from Europe and America.

World Inflation kicks
into high gear to ring in the New Year. Poor countries will suffer most
as the rich world exports the cost of its economic crisis in a
desperate attempt to make the poor pay for their falling profits. Food
prices for the poor countries are soaring to stratospheric levels.

Currently 37 countries worldwide are facing food crises due to conflict and disasters. In addition, food security is being adversely affected by unprecedented price hikes for basic food, driven by historically low food stocks, droughts and floods linked to climate change, high oil prices and growing demand for bio-fuels. High international cereal prices have already sparked food riots in several countries .The FAO calls for urgent steps to protect the poor from soaring food prices.

BFA Press Release, 28 November 2007