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From: lkk@teddy.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics.theory
Subject: Re: Let them eat the Gross National Product
Message-ID: <1350@teddy.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 26-Sep-85 17:04:59 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 26 17:04:59 1985
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Reply-To: lkk@teddy.UUCP (Larry K. Kolodney)
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In article <119@oberon.UUCP> walker@oberon.UUCP (Mike Walker) writes:
>
>There seems to a problem here, if the world produces enough food to feed
>itself why doesn't it?  There is a limit to how much food a person can
>eat.  So what happens to the food not distributed?  Why the governments
>buy it up and store it till it goes bad?  Or perhaps pay the farmers to
>let it rot in the fields?  Or refuse to let it go to the famine affected
>areas for political reasons?  



Or perhaps the farmers feed it to pigs and cattle and chickens?

Or perhaps it goes into the large percentage of Americans and 
Europeans who are overweight?

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Sport Death,
Larry Kolodney
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