Re: EVENT: Join "Make Poverty History" riders to Edinburgh, Fri 1 July 2005

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From: Tony Raven
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 11:24

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Ian Johnston wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 20:08:14 UTC, Jon Senior 
> <jon_AT_restlesslemon_DOT_co_DOT_uk> wrote:
> 
> 
>>M Holmes wrote:
>>
>>>We did have DDT, but green whiners stopped 'em using it. I bet the
>>>Africans are really thanking them for that.
>>
>>Actually, before we used debt to force African farmers to switch from 
>>subsistence farming to growing luxury products for the developed world...
> 
> 
> So you reckon a move back to subsistence farming is the way out of 
> poverty?
> 

There was an interesting exploration of this in the Moral Maze on Radio 
4 last night.  The curious anecdote came up that while they are busy 
growing and exporting luxury foods to the first world, they are eating 
baguettes made from French flour because they cannot compete with the EU 
agricultural subsidies in feeding themselves.  The programme is on 
Listen Again at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/religion/moralmaze.shtml

-- 
Tony

"I did make a mistake once - I thought I'd made a mistake but I hadn't" 
Anon

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Subject: Re: EVENT: Join "Make Poverty History" riders to Edinburgh, Fri 1
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