May 15, 2008 (LPAC)--Rep. Andre Carson (D-IN) made a notable statement to the hearing on the global food crisis of the Financial Services Committee on May 14. Rep. Carson, about to leave for Haiti with a delegation trying to get increased emergency food aid and debt forgiveness for that nation, said, "We must ensure that the IMF and the World Bank do not impose conditionalities that prevent countries from strengthening their local food production and economies" -- exactly the whole destructive policy of the IMF. "We must ensure that countries are able to stockpile grain, create domestic support systems for small farmers, and invest in research and technology to increase agricultural productivity," Carson continued, directly attacking the policies of the World Trade Organization.

Helga Zepp LaRouche's call for doubling world food production in the crisis, which had been circulated to Carson and all the Committee Members, demands the WTO be abolished outright, to stop the choking of food self-sufficiency and the resultant killing of people under WTO dictates.

Rep. Carson also took on ethanol production and suggested a moratorium on it, despite the fact that Indiana produces 7.5% of the U.S. corn crop and 19% of Indiana corn is now going to ethanol production.

The Carson statement was echoed in many Congressional statements during the day, both in Washington and, for example, in Houston, where the LaRouche Youth Movement debated Helga LaRouche's call for action, with the crowd at an emergency town meeting of Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee. The Bipartisan Congressional Hunger Caucus, exhorted in Carson's statement, has been moribund for several years but is now springing back into action.