As any resident of Gouves, Hersonissos and Malia townships will tell you, a visit to the supermarket is enough to start contemplating the start of that weight-loss diet we’ve been putting off for years.

Or at least reminisce about the days when food was plentiful – and cheap!

When we fondly recall our childhood years, or the good old times, what we are really doing is trying to identify our false daily reality with a carefree attitude.

The short lived satisfaction is possessed by the wishful thinking of “going back,” which is physically impossible but, for our existence, is necessary.

One of my more beautiful pastimes concerns my biological garden. It offers me mental satisfaction, calm, balance and some special moments of self-knowledge. My morning coffee, when I drink it in my garden, has an especially satisfying taste.

To those of you who have been thinking about starting your own garden, but haven’t done so yet, now’s the time -- since in just a few years from now that garden will be an imperative need.

I do not speak only about rising food prices, or the quality of food stuff, but also for the insufficient amount of food on an international scale.

Who would believe that in America, in the granaries of the world, one would observe an unthinkable phenomenon, the restriction of food stuff, and especially rice?

The World Bank and the International Food Organization have been my main sources for the following statistics:

Up until now, 30 percent of the planet’s population – North America, Western Europe and Japan – consume the 70 percent of produced goods, forcing the 70 percent of the world’s population to live, or rather to suffer, with the remaining 30 percent of production.

The economic growth of such countries as India and China, where we elected to present our “western way of life” and when they decide to consume as we do, then nothing will be enough for anyone.

The consumers in poor countries spend 80 percent of their income on food, while we spend 10-20 percent.

In the next three years, 100 million more people will be added to the “hungry” list, revolts and blind violence will increase and be easily exported to the west.

Basically, that is the reason why big exporters like Vietnam, India, Egypt, Kazakhstan and Argentina ceased to export agro products so they can avoid disturbances due to lack of basic food stuff.

The rise of prices is due to insufficient crops, extreme weather phenomena, the production of fuels for industry and the immense game for the acceptance of genetically altered products.

Perhaps this crisis is the biggest trick that the international money industry has processed to-date. See here:

The best way to end the provisions crisis concerns the biotechnology companies, such as Monsanto, Dupont, Syngeta, and Bayer, which subsidize the production of fuels for industry. By doing so, it constitutes a false positive view for growing and consuming genetically altered foods in mass scale.

The New York Times wrote: “even in Europe, where the reaction was intense and the genetically altered products are called Frankenstein food, certain government officials and company executives ask for a faster approval for importing genetically altered foods.”

The National Meat Union in Great Britain asked for “a termination to any opposition against genetically altered foods because of the lack of food globally.”

Neil Parish, Chairman of the European Parliament’s agriculture committee, commented that “as long as the food prices are on the rise, so Europeans will become realists on the subject of genetically altered foods.”

In Great Britain, animal organisms, beginning with humans, are the most burdened with dioxins.  The body passes out dioxins with urine, but new studies show that in women they are passed out in bigger quantities through maternal milk.

So, now is the time to resist against all those who decide for our kids and ourselves without asking us.

Through the internet, you will meet people who perceive and can share common problems, but also share the few biological seeds they allocate in an effort for “a global community action” and returning to some true value systems.

Even here, in our country, and our townships, changes can happen if the leaders would show some concern and start taking action.

In Switzerland there are agricultural schools for biologically produced products, where the future biological cultivators of the world study – but alas, no Greeks!

All local governments should send student agriculturists and agronomists through public expense to study the alternative before the absolute alimentary impasse: genetically altered or nothing.

Let them teach us the new forms of agriculture, and how to collectively confront the problem.

Perhaps as pioneers we can perceive a clean garden for every home and perhaps we can finally believe that the antidote for cancerous indifference has finally been invented.