Gift Economy/Food Riots/and Gardens

It's time for us to do something. I just came from watering our plot in our community garden. There are food riots in many countries and the UN says that 33 countries are on the verge of total disruption of their governments because of food prices and shortages. There are many reasons for this, but here are a few sited now even on conventional news media.

1. Global warming is disrupting production.
2. Prices are soaring because of manipulation of agriculture by the U.S. the World Trade organization and other wealthy powerful governments.
3. Bio fuels are taking over farm land as well as causing the destruction of rain forest land to produce bio fuel crops.
4. The cost of fuel is soaring and distribution of food across thousands of miles also raises the price of food.

What we need is to revamp the whole basis of world wide economies. It is no humane to have people starving while some have millions of times more money than they can spend in a lifetime.

Another issue that feeds into economies is the slavery of labor. Even in countries where equality and democracy are high held ideas, as the U.S. was purported to be at some point in our past, when we enter the workplace, democracy and equality go out the window. Very few people are doing what they were born to do nor can they even figure out what that would be. Even in very wealthy countries people spend their lives doing what they think will bring them wealth or at least a livleihood instead of what gives their lives purpose and meaning.

Gift economies are circular. They involved a giving based system where the point is to give what each person has to give to the community and through a circle the giver has his or her needs met.