Dear Cherl-Ho Lee

  Thank you very much for the book entitled Food War 2030, which you have authored.

 I have read it from the beginning to the end. I am not only impressed by all the facts on the world food distribution patterns you have put together, but also the way you have organized the presentation building up the critical development in the global distribution of essential food items both from a food safety and food security point of view. I like your shifts between fact chapters and fictive discussion chapters on factual problem areas. Most of the situations I have experienced myself, but never put them in a food security perspective based upon availability to an affordable price or considered the loss of skills in local communities due to undue completion or patented seeds.

  You explain that very well and I started to think that you were going to make yourself a new “Al Gore” in the food field explaining the way for the world to go in the food field if not serious actions are taken. Unfortunately your book finishes rather abrupt ending to diminish the food problem or the solution of the food problem to a national Korean “Happy ending”. I fully understand your despair over the global situation and that you start to think local, but as a “global” reader I am longing for proposals for a global solution to the serious situation based upon your bold prediction on the front page regarding the food war as the trigger that will hasten the end of capitalism.

  I do not have the detailed ideas for the way to go, but it seems to me that the rules for the world trade with food has to reviewed in the light of your findings and a mechanism has to be invented for doing that maybe within the United Nations. Maybe there should be established a court system for establishment of a fair global food security system both acknowledging the need for fair trade conditions but also the need for food availability for fair prices without dumping due to subsidized production in other places, and still allowing for local production. Maybe lessons can be learned from the discussion already ongoing in the medical field trying to establish global availability of patented AIDS medicines for poor people, availability of affordable insulin in countries of different wealth, as well as availability of vaccines. By upcoming claims regarding its nutritional strength due content of amino acids, vitamins, essential minerals food is becoming closer and closer to the way pharmaceuticals are marketed….

  I hope you will consider a second version of your extremely important book where such aspects are considered as well! That will surely make you the “Al Gore” number two!

  Very best personal regards both to yourself and your family

Ogs? mange hilsener fra Bodil.

Ib Knudsen, DVM
Chief Adviser in Food Safety and Toxicology,
Tibberup All? 11,
DK-3500 Værløse
Denmark