April 29, 2008 (LPAC)--Jean Zeigler, the UN's Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, used his final, April 28 press conference in Geneva to denounce the starvation of poor people around the world.

The work of WTO director Pascal Lamy, Ziegler said, "is totally contrary to the interests of people who are victims of starvation." It is protectionist payments that allow peasants and small farmers to produce food, he continued, not trade liberalization!

Ziegler charged that the IMF's policies were tantamount to colonialism--encouraging poor nations to produce non-food products for export to pay off foreign debt, while leaving subsistence farmers to eke out an existence on a "colonial crop".

But, while the members of the United Nations can recognize the real cause of the international food crisis, and even recommend solutions, only the United States Presidency, acting in the image of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, can act to stop it, as it must do now. Only a revival of the American System can prevent the food crisis, and Lyndon LaRouche has taken responsibility for implementing this revival, today. Only the American System could increase global food production, which has been declining over decades, due to British-styled, Malthusian free-trade.

Ziegler's statement therefore creates the perfect opportunity for defining the need for immediate, "Presidential", implementation of LaRouche's policy, as outlined in "Three Steps to Survival."