<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Leslie London</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Leslie.London@uct.ac.za">Leslie.London@uct.ac.za</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br><br>
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<div>The idea that profiteering can be allowed free reign in food markets is one of the many obscenities visited on by neoliberalism</div>
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<div>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</div>
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<div>Boggles the mind ...</div>
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<div>As rising food prices trigger riots and political upheavels, the elite rush to insulate themselves.</div>
<div>This can't continue infinitum, can it?</div>
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