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(over 3 billion dollars worth) than the entire continent of Africa,” and
agricultural exports to Canada were twice as high as to the 17 countries
of the world with a food supply of less than 2,000 calories per person,
with a population of almost 1 billion people. Furthermore, 55% of US
grain exports are for animals, much of it for beef exports to the US, and
most of the food for Third World governments is not aid (only 3% was
aid in 1982) but rather is sold with low-interest financing (and hence is
in effect a taxpayer subsidy to US agribusiness), then for the most part
resold at prices that the poor cannot afford. 101
Forty thousand children die every day from malnutrition and disease
resulting from starvation. We help kill them, with policies designed to
have this predictable consequence.
Let us now turn away from the children dying of malnutrition while
crops are exported to the US, from the bodies hacked to pieces by
machetes and the villages burned to the ground in free-fire zones, and
consider the background for all of this at home.
Classics in Politics: Turning the Tide Noam Chomsky
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