Conflict - The Guilt & The Glory Lyrics
Do you know that at least 70% of the human population of this planet starveand many more do not get enough to eat? You must now be familiar with reportsof the famine In Ethiopia, where the weather has been so dry that crops fall,where the people are so hungry they have to walk many miles to the nearestrelief station where there might be food If proplr have been generous.In any one station at least 40 people a day die. totally shriveled.They haven't the energy to brush away the flies that are waiting for THEIRmeal. These poeple are the victims of our western governments. In Britainalone there are massive great food stores where surplus grain sits, In theEEC there are food mountains, In Amrerica farmers are paid to destroy part oftheir harvest, while big corporations plunder the 3rd world countries at theexpense of the natives. Why Is this - economics, the science of greed. thatwhich says people must pay western prices for their food. Natural starvingcountries can't afford this especially when their government takes the bestfIrst. The western government have plenty of money. They tax us on ourincome, then they tax us on what we buy. They take the money we have workedfor and use It to buy arms. They would rather be able to destroy the world12 instead of 10 times over than transport surplus food to those who die.Indeed, they become 111 through obesity. Must we tolerate these obscenities?When soon even we may be starving because of their taxes.Some people don't see the connections between big bussiness and destruction.The biggest murderers are MacDonald's. Not only do they breed and slaughtermillions of cattle, great rain forests are pulled down to make way forgrazing ground. This destroys hundreds of unique species each time not tomention the fact that we need trees to produce oxygen for the planet.Many birds In North America migrate to these forests, on arriving and findingno forest they die. The drop In population of birds means~more insects andthe Americans only answer to this is pesticide. We all know about factorieswho manufacture pesticide, you know about Union Carbide. They're an AmericanCompany who set up dangerous plants. It doesn't matter, nearly 3,000 indiansare now dead due to their callousness, thousands have strokes and injuriesthat will never heal. Innocent people who had done nothing, whose life is noteasy anyway, and why? So America can steal food from the starving millions.Nearly all big bussiness, is based on explanation of the worst kinds.Cosmetic companies use dead animals to make their products, then poison manymore by feeding it to them with the end result of encouraging sexism byconvincing men and women to look the same as each other. Advertising promotesthis and advertising of any kind usually portrays women as a sex object only,there to be raped. Drug companies (like Roche & ICI) claim to Invent newdrugs to cure Imagined diseases. Thousands die ~t the hands of their uselessresearch. They try to make drugs to cure heart disease which was originallycaused by the sufferer eating meat and dairy products to excess.Booker McConnell own everything from butchers to health shops, as long asthe cash rolls in who cares? Other companies who make machinery ~ domesticappliances (like Thorn EMI.) also makes defense gadgetry. British Aerospacespecialize In fighters in favour of passenger jets. Governments pay more forweaponry that domestic consumers pay for domestic items. That's why many manycomapnies world wide clamour for defense orders, some would go bankruptwithout them. The final Industry, uranium mining, sponsored in Britain by RTZplunders the landscape, kills the wildlife,exploits the natives and gives themcancer. The product makes bombs to kill all and 15 used for nuclear fuel.The kind of power that produces waste which can be pumped Into the sea InCumbria. Deformed babies and children dying and leukemia are coincidences
