Food justice

Worldpress (Feb. 13): "Starvation in developing countries was made worse, according to Lappe, when investors in the United States pulled money out of the sub-prime mortgage crisis to invest in commodities, contributing to the over 50 percent increase in food prices between 2007 and 2008. Lappe, whose book "Diet for a Small Planet" has sold over three million copies worldwide, said the requirements on poorer countries to reduce spending on agriculture, liberalize trade and allow "unfettered imports," while "we in the global north did not follow the same," is also a source for starvation.
"So what we see, from the Philippines to Haiti and elsewhere, are countries that were once largely food self-sufficient — the Philippines, for example, which was a major rice producer is now the leading importer of rice," he said." Read more