Showing posts with label famine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label famine. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 03, 2009

A Common Error

"Instead of solving the world's food crisis, [since WWII] the USDA's policies have only made it worse."

Jim Goodman in Grist


Goodman's obviously a whippersnapper with no memories before 1990.

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

The Most Unfortunate Wording I've Noticed Today

"There’s a fairly decent chance that we’re going to have a famine in hundreds of places all over the world, and hunger growing everywhere - including here - all for no reason whatsoever. "

Decent? decent? Please. (Note--while I read the blog I often don't agree with the author.)