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Subject: Re: pesticides
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Date: Fri, 14-Aug-87 01:29:03 EDT
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In article <1452@terminus.UUCP> nyssa@terminus.UUCP (The Railyard) writes:
>While people are starving to death in their
>billions  (Remember that *ten times* the population of the Unites States
>goes to bed hungry!),
I'd like to see a reference proving this statement.
>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?

It isn't that simple.  We have food surpluses in the EEC and the US
precisely because we've shown the rest of the world how to grow more
food, and they can do it more cheaply now than we can, yet we continue
to subsidize our farmers.  Irrational, yes, but not the cause of
hunger.  By and large, hunger in the world today is caused by (1)
governments using famine as a weapon of war [Ethiopia], and (2) failed
socialist agricultural policies in the Third World [much of black
Africa and pre-Deng China, for example].

    Steve Walton, guest as walton@tybalt.caltech.edu
    AMETEK Computer Research Division, ametek!walton@csvax.caltech.edu
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