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MONETARY: Thank you for your reply.
Keith Wilde <keithwilde@sympatico.ca> wrote: Eric is right that the WTO is an act of aggression against farmers in countries like the Philippines and that such countries would improve their circumstances if they could put high barriers against subsidized agricultural produce from the US, EU and other "surplus" countries, probably including Canada. Part of the damage done, as Eric implies, is that in order to compete at all on the basis of price, Filipino farmers feel compelled to get on the fertilizer-pesticide-financial bondage treadmill. I am not sure what he prefers as a solution, but farm subsidies to help cover the costs of production (the inputs trap) is not the way out. It works poorly even in the US where the
subsidies are abundant and seriously deter the transition to organic technology, and even more poorly in Canada, where the subsidies are usually less generous, amounting to a portion of the inputs cost. It takes little or no imagination to realize that this transfer of income from general taxpayers goes immediately into the hands of either the chemical industry suppliers or to pay back loans for same to the farmers' bankers. And to continue with subsidizing the chemical industry does not encourage transition to sustainable practices and produce of higher quality. Until governments can be persuaded to provide ecologically-oriented technical assistance and put restrictions on inferior but cheaper imports (as well as health-protecting regulations) some form of direct subsidy to impoverished farmers may be the least-bad remedy. But it should be a direct income supplement with no linkage to farmer revenue or production (a positive feedback loop
that makes the problem worse). Keith Wilde ----- Original Message ----- Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2006 11:07 PM Subject: MONETARY: Filipino Farming is dying under the chemicalised farming and debt money system
Family subsidy or
supplementary basic income to family can reduce and even replace all other unnecessary subsidies-that do not work for the citizens. In the Philippines, there is no any form of subsidy to the poor Filipino farmers and their families. Filipino farmers are dying. All over the Philippines, farming without any assistance from the government is dying as a way of modern life; many farms are untilled, awaiting conversions to non-agricultural uses. It is good in EU and US, farmers are organized well to mount a strong lobby to defend and protect their interests. However, it appears that organic farming is still marginalised even in USA. Rich nations continue to
support the costly operations of their farmers through huge price-distorting subsidies and tariff walls against cheaper imports. In the Philippines, the situation is the opposite. More than 20 Million Filipino farmers and their families are suffering terrible poverty, disabilities, injustice and hunger under the life-health destroying, killing, environmentally-soil poisoning chemically-based farming under the traps of multinational chemical companies and loan sharks lending institutions. WTO is not for the poor farmers in the poor countries but only for the protection of agricultural products of the rich nations. There is injustice in this trade liberalization disastrously affecting the poor farmers and their families especially the families and innocent children. We must continue to work together for change and especially for organic farming and for monetary and economic justice for the poor families. Do you have any comments? Thank you for reading. Eric V. Encina Filipino Alternative Solutions For Sustainable Survival,
Inc. c/o Lito Alhambra Old House, Homesite, Km2, Brgy. Lawa-an, PO Box 8, 5800 Roxas City, Capiz, Philippines Tel. No. 0063 36 6216-454
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Sir, Thank you for your reply and comments. And so we go on to fight for change and justice. I hope for cooperation, fellowships and solidarity to find genuine solutions to these mindboggling problems brought about by the infinitely silly and unjust debt money system. For further information about the dreadful farming situation in the Philippines, please consider to peruse below. I always welcome comments, suggestions and proposals for effective, genuine and long-term change and alternative solutions for the survival of the poor Filipino families - presently fluctuating between hope and despair. The present system of finance is indeed a form of "economic genocide" that may lead to future mass suicide. Thank you for your trouble reading my emails and articles. Sincerely yours, Eric V. Encina
FILIPINO ALTERNATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR SUSTAINABLE SURVIVAL, INC. Roxas City, Capiz, Philippines FILIPINO ALTERNATIVE SOUTIONS FOR SUSTAINABLE SURVIVAL, INC.(Non-governmental; Non-profit; Non-party; Non-sectarian)Company Reg. No. CN200529799 / TIN 006 027325 / Tax-exempt / Non-Vat
We are a small group of poor Filipino natives and families struggling to survive in poverty and working for alternative and organic solutions for sustainable survival and campaigning for economic/monetary justice and democracy for our children for the long-term. Chemicalised Farming for the poisoning of soil, environment and our food for the interest and profit of the multinational chemical corporations under the present unjust financial-economic system is a crime against humanity! We are a poor Filipino natives and families terribly struggling to survive in dire poverty in our impoverished villages in this province of the Philippines. Our country is under the trap of unjust financial-economic system which, among other causes, the major cause of poverty of millions of poor Filipino families, mostly farmers in the villages. We understand that this is all a sensitive and a critical issue. Our situation is critical and yet we keep up positive to keep going as our motto is: “SAVE LIFE, HEALTH AND PROTECT OUR PLANET – PROMOTE NATURAL & ORGANIC ALTERNATIVES” in support to economic alternatives, monetary reform and Social Credit proposals, for the survival of the poor Filipino families and children in our region.
We are hoping that we share the common central objectives, projects and alternatives in building a sustainable life through organic farming especially for the economically marginalized poor farmers in our human community. We also hope that we can explore a more combination of our efforts and initiatives towards the success of organic farming in our countries, poverty alleviation, security and economic democracy for the poor organic farmers and may other farmers in the whole world be freed themselves from the tragedy of chemically-based and intensive farming that only cause poisoning of soil, environment, our food leading to tremendous health problems with difficult cure and expensive medicines that
only in fact for the benefit of chemical and drug industries and tycoons. It is an irony that most of our Filipino farmers now in the villages cannot plant rice, corn, vegetables and fruit trees without, as being conditioned, pesticides, herbicides and other chemicals that they borrow in advance at interest from chemical agricultural stores and suppliers – the agents of multinational chemical companies. Because of brainwashing of chemical companies and aggravated by the constant pressures on money problem for survival, most farmers here forget the organic farming, which is the most safest and better for health. If there are no
chemicals for planting, they have no farming jobs, because they depend on chemicals and as a result, there is no employment and therefore there is no money for the survival of their families and of course contributes to tragedy of poverty. Some farmers because of chemically-based farming bankruptcy due to debts, sell their land and instead do businesses in the town or city selling artificial foods and other consumption products (also cause health problems to consumers) for immediate income. But many of these Filipino farmers who have turned town-city businessmen do not usually last long, in fact oftentimes suffer the same bankruptcy and a litany of miseries afterwards. This is the main reason why I, Eric V. Encina, the FilipinoSocial Crediter/Monetary Reformer /Activist for Monetary/Economic justice for the poor farming families, organic farming activist, founded this organization FILIPINO ALTERNATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR SUSTAINABLE SURVIVAL,INC. only last August 2005 with the registration licenses approved in the months of September and October 2005 and to be on operation until 2055, and with my poor companions, we are trying to pilot this kind of initiative in promoting and encouraging the fellow villagers to do organic farming or natural animal raising projects for our family
survival especially for the children – fear to be growing without future economic security in the Philippines under the present debt-based economic system and poisonous chemically-based farming. In our keen observation and even from the experiences of our poor family farming members, relatives and friends in the villages, the chemical companies for chemically-based intensive farming are not interested to health and survival of the poor Filipino farmers, but
purely PROFIT. They are only marginalizing the poor farmers, in fact killing them. One of the major causes of POVERTY in the Philippines is Environmental Problem or Deterioration. There is a constant environmental deterioration or exploitation because of monetary pressure under the present defective-debt-based-economic and chemically-based farming. Of course there are other underlying causes of environmental destruction. But we want to dwell on directly to the cruel effects of
intensive or chemically-based farming. The chemicals have destroyed the natural fertility of our Philippine soil. Farmers don’t want or can’t plant without chemicals. Farmers are already ‘chemical addicts’. And as a result is the fact of destroying our environment and poisoning our body that lead to tremendous health problems such as cancer and other degenerative/autoimmune diseases. What a crime? Chemically-based, poisoning-environmentally-destructive farming for profit-oriented motives of the multinational chemical corporations have terribly destroyed, discouraged and despaired ORGANIC FARMING AGRICULTURE in the countryside, particularly in the villages, making the lives of the poor Filipino farmers and their families MISERABLY UNSUSTAINABLE THAN EVER. Millions of poor Filipino farmers are shackled and pressured to keep their plantations, rice fields, cornfields (owned or rented or by tenancy) UNDER DEBTS FOR HERBICIDES, PESTICIDES AND ARTIFICIAL FERTILISERS. Increasing numbers of Filipino farmers in the village are sick, under or mal or lack of nourishment, and in fact,
suffering some serious diseases like cancer of the skin, lungs, nostrils and even blindness or other degenerative diseases. But alas without any health aid, insurance or any forms of government assistances/support nor any commiseration or any sympathy from these multinational chemical corporations. And as our Philippine soil and environment is destroyed and toxic-stricken that contaminates our food, it is usually followed by the growing strange illnesses among the inhabitants – where most of the diseases are very risky, life threatening, if not
impossible to cure, but very difficult and costly to cure. Most of the poor Filipino farmers cannot afford for medical treatment either through complementary/alternative medicines or traditional medicines. And so, the result is the increasing death rates among the poor Filipino farmers without any assistance from the government, without any justice and security to their impoverished poor family members and children left behind. These are some of the ironic side-effects of the chemically-based farming: Poisoning the environment, the poor farmers and the consumers with the diseases terribly
increasing in numbers, bringing us down into the dungeon of miseries and financial calamities. Multinational chemical corporations like global mega-bankers, as profit-oriented and sucking billions of profit annually, do not care the miserable plight of these poor and sick Filipino farmers and their groaning and moaning families in hopelessness. It is very unfortunate that Philippine Dept. of Agriculture’s Annual budget is only allocated for chemically-based farming subsidizing the government-controlled chemically-based farming schools, colleges
and mega-projects, but without any assistance or encouragement to save the Philippine natural soil fertility through environmentally good organic farming. The crucial question is: How can we persuade the Philippine Government to turn our farming into organic method? One multinational chemical company in the world named MONSANTO on Herbicides, etc. is very influential in the Philippine government departments and officials, to almost Filipino scientists, agriculturists and economists for the promise of high yields. Its latest trick in the
Philippines is to convince the farmers, and the government is to put native crops into extinction and instead patronize GM crops. There is a report that American taxpayers are forced to fund Monsanto’s poisoning of the third world people by promoting chemically-based farming and GM products. Government policies, programs, projects due to internal and external pressures on agriculture or vested interest, are most of the times favorable to MEGA-INTEREST of these multinational chemical/drug companies or poisoning companies DESTROYING THE ENVIRONMENT, SOIL AND HEALTH OF THE NATIVE INHABITANTS, ASTUTELY AND ADROITLY CLAMORING FOR FOODS, HEALHT AND HOPE BUT ACTUALLY AND EVIDENTLY POISON, DISEASE AND DEATH AND DESPAIR TO FILIPINO PEOPLE AND TO ALL THRID WORLD INHABITANTS AND TO PLANET’S ENVIRONMENT. (We must weep for this
pestiferous tragedy). GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS OR GMO OR ARTIFICIAL FOODS OR ARTIFICIALLY GROWN FOODS ARE A RACKETEERING INDUSTRY. IT IS SURELY FOR THE PROFIT OF THESE POISONING COMPANIES KILLING INNOCENT LIVES AND FAMILIES. Imagine what a damned thing to brainwash poor Filipino and third world farmers towards death of organic farming. To set aside native plants or seeds or crops and be replaced by artificial plants or chemically-based food growing and abusive animal raising is a crime against humanity. GMO cannot solve hunger, poverty and economic insecurity in the
Philippines and in the third world. GMO is not for justice. It is not for the poor. It is not for farmers. It is all about profit and MONOPOLY ON FARMING for the mega-profit and interest of the greedy tycoons of the multinationals and ultimately for the long-term or even lifetime destruction of the environment in which the next Filipino and third world generations will, for certain, suffer tremendously. And despite or in spite of the promises on prosperity and alleviation from poverty, Philippine farming has been in the holocaust of torturous and disappointing situation.
There are around 15-20 Million, currently increasing in numbers, FILIPINO FARMERS in dreadful poverty, under the very vicious cycle of nightmarish economic crisis and political tomfoolery in the countryside. The Philippine government economic and political policies are mostly favorable to chemically-based farming but smugly ignoring organic farming as ancient and non-productive and non-profitable way of industry. It must be admitted that the Philippine Government and the Filipino people are helplessly deceived and obsessed, mesmerized, bombozzled and misled in a greater degree by
delusive, false hopes and empty promises of the international bankers and multinational chemical corporations on its economic direction-almost no more direction…! Many Filipino farmers are still landless, (like us) asset less, penniless, homeless, hopeless and to some, tremendously disease-stricken without any assistance from the government nor any help from the local national and international aid agencies. Are there people, groups, organizations and agencies being moved with PITY to the plight of the poor Filipino and third world farmers devastatingly impoverished by chemically-based
farming and heavily and viciously put into the dungeon of debts under debt money system and dreadfully and perpetually suffering tremendous health crisis? Billions of Philippine money like Coco Levy Fund for the poor Filipino farmers are gone, stolen, invested to somewhere else for the profits of the tycoons and for the companies and politicians and economists. Allegedly being invested for chemical-based farming. This money should have been in aid for the poor coconut farmers and to all farmers. But money is lost, is controlled! We also see that poverty here is one of the major causes of environmental destruction, depriving the people of the economic, social and cultural basis underlying the poor peoples’ existence. In the villages, the struggle to survive forces the poor and the hungry to massive over-exploitation of sensitive eco-systems. Some insane people in the villages due to many reasons or emergency cases for immediate income, are also using dynamite or poison or chemicals in catching the fishes or obtaining river or sea products/foods that cause destruction. It is very lamenting that biological diversity is disappearing rapidly. In the past years, we have had birds like quail running around but now we seldom see them anymore. Jungle or forest is now empty. Philippines is now among the top 5 countries whose environment
are in great danger. Most of the rivers, lakes, streams, oceans are already polluted killing animals and humans. Our Philippine environment is already toxic-stricken. It is terrible that thousands of kinds or species of plants and animals have been already vanished or extinct because of environmental destruction, deterioration and pollution under the most unjust financial economic and system and chemicalised farming. Philippine environment has been pauperized as the system has destroyed our natural resources, not because of population growth. In fact,
Philippines is now below birth replacement level because of chemically-based birth control programs, also for the profit of drug and chemical companies. It has been accompanied by horrific rise in the concentration of wealth of the few rapacious, egoistic, sarcastic, immoral and financially arrogant tycoons and peoples. It’s been a disastrous paradox that Philippine government is providing enormous amounts of money from $millions to $billions for paying interest $300 per second or $10 Billion annually for the country’s colossal never-ending debts, financial grants for chemical pills, contraceptives, abortifacients, for abortion, and for the hydra-headed graft and corruptions, for money market speculations. For useless government environmentally-destructive projects like Nuclear plant, but no enough money for environmental conservation, preservation and protection and for the ORGANIC FARMING, for the millions
of poor, sick and hungry Filipino farmers in the countryside. And because of the cruelty of our crippling and baneful crisis, there are many instances why we do not have the option of protecting our environment. We are under brutal sanction to extract more and more at maximum costs, so that sufficient of our products can find the way on to world markets for the servicing of the immoral and huge foreign debts and even by artificially curving the population by chemical abortifacients that cause diseases and deaths to poor natives. Philippine environment is continually and mercilessly exploited due to monetary pressures and chemically-based farming, not really because of population growth – as there is no more population growth here, and of course the young generations or future generations will certainly bear the costs as our resources are relentlessly depleted as we can see the observe for the purpose of raising interest
charges to IMF and WB, to other foreign bankers and for the profits of the multinational chemical and drug companies. Billions of dollars being spent every year on advertisements by multinational corporations destroying the environment, health, life and families and culture, etc. for profit are a heinous crime against humanity. Organic Farming and Natural Animal Raising Products as the solution to Environmental problems both good and necessary for humans and animals, plants, etc. We, in the villages, must begin to be trustworthy stewards of the environmental resources and their renewal that we inherited from our native ancestors as provided by God Almighty. Our objectives also are ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY, SOCIAL EQUITY AND ECONOMIC SECURITY. Truth lies in the fact that all of us are duty-bound by Divine Providence to take care, protect, preserve, recover and improve the environment in our villages, in our region, in our countryside in which we live. And since or material survival is related to it, we must do livelihood projects that protect and preserve environment, wildlife and natural soil fertility. We must do the campaigns for the preservation, restoration, conservation, improvement of natural environment and organic farming for the survival of the poor native families and animal and plant species.
In view of the present nightmarish financial-economic crisis, dire poverty, debt and health problems and our own struggles through gruesome litany of miseries, of financial shackles and torments in the day to day torturous struggles and circumstances, I would like you to know that our works are very crucial and critical more than ever. For all these reasons, our organic solutions, along with monetary reform campaign, are of our priority major concerns right now. We are challenged in facing such undoubtedly gargantuan and extremely difficult problems. We experience and witness daily the inhuman sufferings of the poor Filipino family farmers and their children in poverty, debt and diseases. We cannot just continue to be blind and deaf or cross our arms or legs or doing nothing in front of these detestable things. Dreadful poverty in the lives of the poor Filipino farming families, in the ironic state of perpetual financial hemorrhage and savage cruelty of poverty are things that must be given honest and sincere attention from the world community. Please believe that as long as there are pressing problems caused by the poor under the system, the rich people will continue to have the same problems too. Both rich and poor people across the globe are terribly affected. The remedy is that we must help each other, must strengthen each other, must be compassionate, generous and merciful to each other and must be united in our will, determination, ideas and alternatives and efforts in such a way to contribute to the betterment of humanity and thus attain material and financial security equally for all from the cradle to the grave.
I express my thanks reading my letter and articles. Remain us united in our efforts, ideas, ideals and alternatives for the success of organic farming, for the security of all organic farmers, for health and betterment of all people in our planet! Let there be a ray of hope for the poor Filipino organic farmers and all farmers in the world. Let us continue the fight without compromise. Sincerely yours,
Eric V. Encina, Founder/President/Administrator Filipino Alternative Solutions For Sustainable Survival, Inc. c/o Lito Alhambra Old House, Homesite, Km2, Brgy. Lawa-an, PO Box
8, 5800 Roxas City, Capiz, Philippines Tel. No. 0063 36 6216-454
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