History Proves that Western Governments Have Already Used Food as a Weapon of Genocide
The Great Famine of Ireland, in which mass potato crop failures resulted in more than 1 million men, women, and children dying of starvation, is now recognized by some as one of the first historical examples of the dangers of monoculture. But what few people realize about this grave time in Western history is that it is also one of the earliest examples of food being used as a weapon of ethnic cleansing and genocide.アイルランドのポテト飢饉で１００万人が死に追いやられた歴史はモノカルチャーの危険性を歴史的な事例として示している。そして食料がジェノサイドとして利用された武器であったことを示している。（遺伝子組み換えの怖さ、ＴＰＰの問題も示している）
In his book The Famine Plot, Irish historian Tim Pat Coogan brings to light how the British monarchy essentially drove the Irish people of that time to their grim fate by engineering the food shortage that would eventually capture more than one in eight Irish lives. Based on the definitions outlined by the United Nations as to what genocide actually is, the way the Irish were treated by the Royal Crown during the mid-19th century serves as a clear example of genocide through food.１９世紀半ばにアイルランドで起こったことは英王国による大虐殺だった。Ｔｈｅ Ｆａｍｉｎｅ Ｐｌｏｔ『飢饉策略』で明かされている事実だ。
According to Coogan’s account, the British government of the time purposely did nothing to help the Irish people when an unusual fungus began to wipe out much of the potato crop. With tensions high between the Protestant and Catholic elements of the two countries, England used the famine as an excuse to neglect and mistreat the Irish, claiming that they brought poverty on themselves by clinging to Catholicism.ポテトが菌ですべて全滅した時、英国政府はアイルランドの人々に手を差し伸べることなく、カソリック教のせいにした。
The English already owned much of the land in Ireland prior to the famine, with the Irish as their tenants. They taxed the Irish heavily and charged them exorbitant rents, even as times began to get tough in the early days of the famine, and forced them to export most of their corn, wheat, barley and oat crops to Britain. This left only potatoes, which were slowly eaten up by the fungus, resulting in no food for the Irish.（恐ろしいですね。）イギリス人はアイルランドのほとんどの土地を所有し、彼らを農奴のように収奪し、ポテト以外の穀物を英国に輸出させ、彼らに菌で絶滅していくポテトと共に見捨てたのである。
“While other regions were able to turn to alternative food sources, the Irish were dependent on the potato and the results of the blight were disastrous,” explains a resource published by American University in Washington, D.C.
British government forced suffering Irish people into starvation≪アイルランド人を飢餓に追いやった英国政府）
Rather than help the Irish in their time of need, the British continued to turn up the heat, arguing in essence that God was judging the Irish for their misdeeds, which included rejecting the national religion of England. As explained by Coogan in his book, many local organizations sought to provide food and other forms of aid to the Irish, but the Crown made sure that almost none of these efforts were successful.
“The damned Irish were going to get what they deserved because of their attachment to Catholicism and Irish ways when they were refusing to toe the British line,” reports IrishCentral.com, reflecting the contents in Coogan’s book. “[E]very possible effort by local organizations to feed the starving were thwarted and frustrated by a British government intent on teaching the Irish a lesson and forcing market forces on them.”カトリックの信仰にしがみ付き、伝統を捨てないゆえだと自らの正当化した。つまり飢饉は彼らの信仰と伝統習慣ゆえだと戒めに使った。（どこかの国と似ているようだ）←砂糖だけ栽培させられてきた沖縄？
The United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide clearly delineates that such actions constitute genocide. Article 2 of this chilling document lists “deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part” as one definition. Another definition includes “causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group.”
If you want to control a population, control its food 大衆を支配したければ、食の支配を！
Though England may not have engineered the potato fungus itself, it did forcibly remove from the Irish virtually every other food crop on which this people group subsisted, leaving only one crop that it knew had the potential to collapse. It is the same scenario that is occurring in the U.S. today, sadly, with mass plantations of genetically modified (GM) corn and soy that are spurring the formation of resistant “superweeds” and “superbugs.” 現在のアメリカのＧＭの大量生産と似ている。トウモロコシや大豆を害虫に強いと喧伝してモノカルチャーな農作物を生産させる。
The forces behind the food genocide that is quickly taking form in America today seem to be pulling from the playbook of the Great Irish Potato Famine, though with more stealth and considerably more technology. But it is the same endgame — to target a people with mass destruction by destroying its food supply and leaving it with nothing.アメリカの現実だ。より技術を利用しているが、アイルランドの大ポテト飢饉と同じ構図だ。ターゲットの人々の食糧供給を断つ策略をしている。（恐ろしい）
Many would contend that Native Americans already suffered this fate at the hands of early British colonists, who considered their food crops and traditional medicines were considered “evil.” Some historical accounts suggest that Native Americans were eradicated, at least in part, by the intentional destruction of various plants and herbs that they used for both food and medicine.英国人の植民者はアメリカインディアンの穀物や伝統的な医薬品（薬になる植栽など）を悪だと指摘した。ある歴史家は意図的にインディアンの多様な植栽やハーブ（食料になり医療効能があったもの）を破壊したたのも彼らの絶滅の原因になったという。
“[O]ne of the most substantial methods [of genocide] was the premeditated destructions of flora and fauna which the American Indians used for food and a variety of other purposes,” explains one report.最も実質的な虐殺手段の一つは、故意にアメリカインディアンが食料や他の目的に使っていたＦＬＯＲＡ（食物相）とＦＡＵＮＡ（動物相）を破壊したことだった。
More on Coogan’s book about the Great Famine of Ireland is available here:
IrishCentral.com.
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今、日米が沖縄で強行しようとしていることも沖縄の生きる糧としての自然の破壊に他ならない。沖縄を麻薬つけ、何かに依存させる構造に落とし込んで意のままにせんとする政策がこの間実施されてきたのだね。沖縄戦で焼け野が原にされた沖縄。日本防衛の盾になり１５万人以上が殺された。そして沖縄を自らの世界戦略の要として利用し続けるアメリカがいる。そして日本がいる。日米が手を携えて沖縄を食い物にしているのが現在の構図だろう。その罠から抜け出さないといけない。沖縄自民党県連は、その罠の中にいて、沖縄の一般住民を同じ落とし穴に落とし込むつもりなのかもしれない。辺野古にさらに巨大軍港ヘリ基地を造らせてはいけない。基地との共生は異常でありすぎる。アメリカが勝手に利用した沖縄の≪土地≫をきれいにして返してほしいものだ。無条件撤去（土地を浄化して）すべきだ。即座に。沖縄の人々は１００万人も殺されたアイルランドのようになってはいけない。
そのためには法律を県議会で制定する必要がある。自決権が行使できる法律を制定しないといけない。その事例はすでにあるはずで、沖縄のその道の知性溢れる方々は早急に取り組んでほしい。ジェノサイドが繰り返されないと誰にも言えない。ＧＭのモノカルチャー、独占企業体のような強欲は利潤のためだけに自己膨張していく。その視線の中に人間の姿は消えていくのだろうか？ペンタゴンにとって、自らの権力の行使≪利害≫のためだけの琉球諸島であり、そこに住む人間に、彼らは同じ手を差し伸べて来なかった。そして日本は便乗して沖縄をさらに収奪せんとしている。さらに７０年前と同じで、日本の盾にせんとしている。『人類館』の調教師に鞭打たれ、自民党沖縄国会議員は犬になっていった。そして、彼らはまだ犬として日本政府の紐に引きずられるのだろうか？最も調教師は素性は沖縄生まれだったが権力の中枢に登り詰めて同朋を食い物にする人間は意外と身近にいるのかもしれない。
