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From: bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein)
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Subject: Re: pesticides
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Date: Wed, 12-Aug-87 22:43:41 EDT
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From: rab@mimsy.UUCP (Bob Bruce)
>I disagree.  If you have been paying attention to current events
>you know that the problem in the world today is not a shortage of
>food.  Just the opposite, the problem is crushing surpluses of almost
>every imaginable agricultural commodity.

Good point. I remember a few years ago I was watching a show where
Helmut Schmidt was being interviewed. The interviewer (I forget who,
but it was one of those Meet the Press kind of shows) asked whether he
thought the current efforts to eradicate world hunger would be
successful in the near future. "What efforts?" he asked amusedly, "if
there were any serious efforts there would be no world hunger, no one
that can do anything about world hunger is interested in ending it."
He went on to speak about essentially what you outlined in your note,
that it's not caused by any lack of food but lack of distribution, no
profit in feeding the hungry.

	-Barry Shein, Boston University