Reply #31: I think that misses the point of the specific case Jim.

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We have always had poverty and hunger as a consequence of inequity and indifference…possibly always will.

But the global food crisis was caused directly by an act of profound greed and stupidity that drove millions under the poverty/hunger line.

It was a Wall St scam and rip off…a very nasty piece of straight arm knocking the food out of others mouths.

It was not walking past the pond and ignoring the drowning child….it was picking him up, throwing him in and holding his head under with a stick.