Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version nyu B notes v1.5 12/10/84; site csd2.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!csd2!lanin From: lanin@csd2.UUCP (Vladimir Lanin) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: The role of America in world hunger & red spread Message-ID: <2870003@csd2.UUCP> Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 18:57:00 EDT Article-I.D.: csd2.2870003 Posted: Thu Aug 15 18:57:00 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Aug-85 20:09:54 EDT References: <295@SCIRTP.UUCP> Organization: New York University Lines: 13 Are we talking about starvation or poverty? For example, many (most) Ethiopians are starving, along with the populations of several other African countries, while many (most) people in some Latin American countries are very poor. Correct me if I am wrong (as I am sure you will), but if there are people actually starving in the latter countries, it is not peasants working agribusiness lands, but some of those who left the land and are living around large cities without means of supporting themselves. It does not make sense for landowners (no matter how immoral) to let their populations get to the point of starvation, where they are useless for work.