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From: cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
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Subject: Re: pesticides
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Date: Fri, 14-Aug-87 12:58:07 EDT
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> This discussion about world hunger reminds me of the most disgusting
> facts about our world.  While people are starving to death in their
> billions  (Remember that *ten times* the population of the Unites States

Billions?  Maybe in the millions, from time to time, but not billions.

> goes to bed hungry!), the EEC is worrying what to do about it's 
> mountains of butter and lamb, and its lakes of wine.  Here, our
> agriculture is running such a surplus that we've destroyed food.
> 
> Is it any wonder that the third world hates us?

Part of why they hate us is the awful realization that the preferred
method of organizing food production in the Third World -- price
controls on food, and collectivized farming -- are extremely ineffective
ways to produce food.

If the Third World were a little less enamored of collectivization
and price controls, they wouldn't have the problems they are having.

Clayton E. Cramer