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New World Notes News
Vol. 3, No. 34 -- August 21, 2010
This week in New World Notes, radio program #129, August 24 & 28:
Food, Hunger, and Globalized
Corporate Agriculture (1)
In brief
The price of food spiked in 2007-2008, greatly increasing hunger--and triggering food riots--worldwide. The riots drew attention to the bizarre system now in place, in which a handful of huge, vertically integrated corporations control food production and distribution globally. They are aided by corrupt transnational institutions such as the World Bank and corrupt national governments.And financial speculators know that food bubbles can be just as profitable as high-tech bubbles and housing bubbles--even if they involve starving a few dozen million additional people.
This installment features a lively discussion of such matters by food-and-agriculture experts Katarina Wahlberg and Raj Patel (recorded in 2008) and a reading of Paul Craig Roberts' recent essay, "Chelsea's Wedding: Let Them Eat Cake."
Top: Church soup kitchen in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City.Bottom: Somewhere in Africa. Most photos: Click to enlarge.
Notes, credits, & links
This installment on agriculture is the first of a series. We'll have the next installment (insh'allah) in three weeks.
Thanks to the weekly radio program "Building Bridges," and to producers Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg, for the Wahlberg-Patel dialogue.
I have condensed Paul Craig Roberts' essay. The original is printed here. Thanks to Roberts and to counterpunch.org .
New World Notes is produced under the auspices (Latin for "What, me worry?") of WWUH-FM, a community service of that beacon of light in darkest Connecticut, the University of Hartford.
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