- Bush's
evangelising about food chills European hearts
- 'Today, 21% of the food grown in the developing world is destined for
animal consumption. In many developing countries, more than a third
of the grain is now being grown for livestock. The animals, in
turn, will be eaten by the world's wealthiest consumers in the northern
industrial countries. The result is that the world's richest
consumers eat a diet high in animal protein, while the poorest people on
earth are left with little land to grow food grain for their own
families. And, even the land that is available is often owned by
global agribusiness interests, further aggravating the plight of the
rural poor. The introduction of GM food crops does nothing to
change this fundamental reality'
- ( Jeremy Rifkin
via Guardian )
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- See also this blog entry from last week
