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Behind the Scenes at a Food Riot

 Health & Wellness  (tags: Raj Patel, starvation, surfism, capitalism, food crisis, Food Safety, family, health, wealthy, modern problem, hunger, G8, warning, society, prevention, nutrition, illness, food, diet )

Gregory
- 78 days ago - stuffedandstarved.org
VIDEO:The Take -- is well worth watching, has turned his attention to the struggles around rice in Haiti. Here, in seventeen minutes, is one of the best treatments of the recent food riots in Haiti, and their long history.
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Jim Phillips (1400)
Sunday July 20, 2008, 12:14 pm
The US needs to work out a better policy for Haiti. IMF & WB need to change their policies as well and get out of Haiti. The recent Food Summit in Rome did nothing as did the G8 Meeting in Japan to alleviate the food crisis in Haiti and in other parts of the world.

TY, Gregory.

 
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