Food (alimentaires)
[Updated on Dec. 7, 2011]
It has been decided today that the Japanese governing party DPJ is going to elect lawmaker Mr. Yoshihiko Noda, the incumbent Minister of Finance, as the next prime minister of Japan tomorrrow.
In the party election held today to choose their new head, lawmakers of the DPJ elected Mr. Noda with 215 votes against the major contender Minister of Economy, Trade, and Industry Mr. Banri Kaieda who got 177 votes. In the final official step, Mr. Noda needs to be elected in a vote in the Lower House of the national Diet. Incidentally, the most popular candidate Mr. Seiji Maehara could not even proceed to the final vote in the party election.
SECTION I: Food
Self-sufficiency in grains:
Country...Self-Sufficiency Rate in Grains (%)In this context, Japan is unique. Indeed, when Japan closed itself to the outer world from the early 17th century to the middle of the 19th century, it had a population of only about 30 million. Now Japan has 125 million population to feed. Japan has to import a great amount of foods from abroad unlike other G7 countries.
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Australia…332.9
Argentina…249.1
Uruguay…205.1
France…173.3
Thailand…161.7
Kazakhstan…150.3
Canada…146.2
Hungary…141.4
USA…131.9
Myanmar…130.6
Vietnam…126.6
Sweden…122.2
Cambodia…121.6
Finland…114.4
Sudan…112.8
Pakistan…111.7
Syria…108.7
Denmark…107.3
Nepal…105.7
Germany…101.4
Chad…99.6
China…99.6
UK…99.4
Russia…99.1
India…98.0
Niger…95.1
Bangladesh…95.0
Turkey…94.5
Poland…93.2
Brazil...91.3
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North Korea…78.1
Italy…72.9
Norway…71.6
Spain…68.1
Egypt…64.5
Mexico…63.7
Venezuela...58.2
Columbia...50.4
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Cuba...32.6
Haiti…31.8
South Korea…28.0
JAPAN…27.0
Portugal…26.7
Netherlands…24.7
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Isreal…9.3
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Kuwait...1.2
UAE...0.0
Iceland...0.0
And, in the period of national isolation of Japan, samurai governed the nation. And, due to an influence of Buddhism in this period, Japanese people did not eat animal meat, such as beef, except whale flesh. So, strength of samurai was rather related to whale flesh but not to beef.
SECTION II: Beef Cattle and Whales
How can you love to kill such harmless beef cattle to eat them?
How can we both protect and utilize whales for good of humanity?
SECTION III: Whale Shrines and Mounds
There are many spiritual or religious facilities in Japan that are dedicated to spirits of whales.
Most of them have a long history stretching over centuries. Some Japanese villages even hold a festival to honor and enshrine whales.
In Japan, one of the oldest whaling reports is of the 8th century.
I suppose that Americans and Australians have no church dedicated to spirits of beef cattle they have killed to eat them.
SECTION IV: Japanese Whaling
Today, some Japanese people do not take the whaling issue as a mere environmental or natural protection issue.
It looks like part of a large-scale anti-Japanese conspiracy in some part of the Anglo Saxon countries.
The oldest written mention of whaling in Japanese records is from Kojiki, the oldest extant Japanese book, which was written in the eighth century. In this book whale meat was eaten by Emperor Jimmu. In Man'yōshū, the word "Whaling" (insanatori) was frequently used in depicting the ocean or beaches.Note: "isana" means brave fish, namely a whale, " in old Japanese. "tori" means taking.
http://www.citizendia.org/Whaling_in_Japan
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Food, Clothes, and Houses are needed by men to live a civilized life.
So, McDonald's and Wal-Marts provide necessities for Americans.
But, houses are not so easy. They were associated with subprime loan mortgages to eventually trigger the 2008 Financial Crisis. Even today, housing construction is a big concern for Wall Street guys.
As for clothes, America imports many clothing items from China to sell them at Wal-Marts, which helped China expand its economy and GDP. Eventually Chinese are now buying many GM cars and Apple products such as iPads.
Now foods and food tickets. They are items that really prove that the U.S. is the largest economy in the world. I don't know how many people die from starvation in America each year due to the lack of money.
Finally Christ Jesus said "Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?"
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKCtOshwQjs&feature=related)
Joh 8:29 And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him.