Another UN Conference

Of all recent UN conferences, this one seems at first glance to be the most innocent. It is being held on the pretext of finding ways to make sure every person has enough food to eat.

I believe that the United Nations is using a putative global food "crisis" as one more justification to impose its agenda on the United States and the rest of the world. And this agenda is one that you and every other American should greatly fear.

Let me share the UN's goal for you and your family at this upcoming conference. The UN wants to:

- Advance an aggressive "family" agenda to reduce the world's population - the UN brand of "family planning" always includes abortion on demand. All of this would be in order to solve the real problem behind the unimagined, worldwide food shortage, which in reality does not exist. The world does not have a food production problem - it has a food distribution problem.

- Encourage all nations to follow a China-like program of "Family planning" to control population levels so that there are fewer mouths to feed. The conference document praises China's population control policies, which include abortion, infanticide, and forced sterilization.

- Require every country, including the U.S., to monitor and control population growth to make sure there is enough agricultural land to sustain the population.

- Redistribute wealth from prosperous nations like the United States to impoverished countries in places like Africa, South America, and Asia.

If the United States' UN delegation signs the World Food Summit Plan of Action, these and many other provisions may become binding an our country.

Our president can then implement the Plan of Action piece by piece through the use of executive orders.

In fact, the president has already done this. In 1993, he signed Executive Order #12852 to create the Council on Sustainable Development to begin to implement the UN agenda in America. Sustainable development is the deceptive term the UN uses to say that wealth and resources must be redistributed and populations must be "controlled."

Part of the Council's first report issued earlier this year reads like a page straight out of the UN's World Food Summit Plan of Action. The report says, in effect, that Americans must change what we eat so that people in other parts of the world can have enough food. The report also says that the U.S. government should begin to "monitor" population growth across America.

We will see many mare reports and policies like this coming out of Washington.

This conference is not ultimately about ending food shortages, in fact, if you read the entire document, there is as much about population control as there is about food. The conference really should be called the World Food and Population Summit. The summit is an attack on the family. UN planners and the administration want to reduce world population through gruesome, China-style abortion policies and acceptance of childless radical feminism and homosexuality.

We simply cannot allow the UN or our government to advance this godless agenda without opposition!

Beverly LaHaye, Chairman, Concerned Women for America