PHM-Exch> Linking Trade and Hunger (3)

[Claudio Schuftan]

From: Leslie London <Leslie.London at uct.ac.za>


 The idea that profiteering can be allowed free reign in food markets is one
of the many obscenities visited on by neoliberalism

At what point does the world realise that it cannot be in the rich's
interests to continue a system so destablising that development aid must
be pumped into 'failing' states unable to meet their own population's rights
to adequate food? So northern governments, through the World Bank and other
agencies, are subsiding the consequences of wild and gross profiteering
benefiting northern (and some southern) shareholders, by putting a plaster
on world hunger with more food handouts. If southern countries were able to
trade on a fair and free playing field, and concentrate on food
self-sufficiency, free of WTO pressures, we would have no need (or less
need) for the bailouts, less hunger, less pain, less suffering

Boggles the mind ...

As rising food prices trigger riots and political upheavels, the elite rush
to insulate themselves.
This can't continue infinitum, can it?
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