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Re: pesticides

#5232
From: Phil Ngai
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1987 23:43
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In article <1452@terminus.UUCP> nyssa@terminus.UUCP (The Railyard) writes:
<This discussion about world hunger reminds me of the most disgusting
<facts about our world.  While people are starving to death in their
<billions  (Remember that *ten times* the population of the Unites States
<goes to bed hungry!), the EEC is worrying what to do about it's 
<mountains of butter and lamb, and its lakes of wine.  Here, our
<agriculture is running such a surplus that we've destroyed food.
<
<Is it any wonder that the third world hates us?

Why, we didn't steal the food from them. Are they jealous because
we're smart enough to grow lots of food and they're not? Suppose we
feed them and they all live and double their population, do we have to
feed those new mouths too? 

-- 
I speak for myself, not the company.

Phil Ngai, {ucbvax,decwrl,allegra}!amdcad!phil or amdcad!phil@decwrl.dec.com
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From: phil@amdcad.AMD.COM (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: misc.consumers,sci.bio,sci.misc
Subject: Re: pesticides
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Date: Fri, 14-Aug-87 19:43:15 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 14 19:43:15 1987
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