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From: janw@inmet.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re: Unequal food distribution :re to
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Date: Sun, 24-Nov-85 21:28:00 EST
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[ tim sevener whuxn!orb]
I find it hard to believe the following statement:
>> >You did not point out that in fact most countries in the world have
>> >a far more uneven food distribution than China.

>> Of course I didn't; there is no reason to believe it. If you read
>> my  "Food  for  China" note you will find some factors of unequal
>> distribution that exist(ed) in China but not in most countries.

>Jan, are you *blind* or what?  The unfortunate fact is that *most*
>Third World countries have *grave* problems with food distribution.
>[examples follow]

*Of course they do*. Poor countries have problems with just about
everything. (I firmly believe, though, that *production* is the key
to the solution). I just pointed out that in Mao's China these
distribution problems were *multiplied*. 

>People throughout the world are starving - that is no joke, Jan.
>It is a catastrophe. 

Then stop apologizing for the social systems that make them
starve MORE (and more unequally) -as well as kill them outright.

Read up, Tim. Literature on China is proliferating right now.
And people are changing their minds, long set.

One extra note: the *present* administration in China is doing
fine. I believe Deng to have as much right to immortality as
any leader in history.

		Jan Wasilewsky