Debunking the food crisis

by John Horvath

Mon, Jun 2, 2008 1:43AM

After decades of liberalization and globalization which was supposed to bring prosperity for the majority, how is it that the vast majority of people are impoverished? Unless more attention is paid to local production, the global food crisis will linger,perhaps indefinitely. We don't need more globalization but less of it.

Like so many problems, the solution lies with consumers andnot with politicians-many of whom are the cause of the present crisis anyway.

to read John Horvath's article published in the German-English cyber journal Telepolis, 6/1/2008, click on
http://www.heise.de/bin/tp/issue/r4/dl-artikel2.cgi?artikelnr=27992&zeilenlaenge=72&mode=html

For more information: http://www.foodfirst.org

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