If Josette Sheeran, head of the United Nations World Food Programme, is to be believed the current food crisis is “a silent tsunami which knows no borders sweeping the world.”

That’s just wishful thinking.

If the tsunami were really silent, then it’d be much easier for cretins to propose trade liberalisation as a remedy, or for Gordon Brown to support genetically modified crops as a way of responding to the disaster.

If the tsunami were silent, these ideas would float unopposed and uncontested. ... read more »

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Posted on 24 April, 2008 - 16:06

Just by way of coda to the previous post, there are many folk who will not be silenced. Check out one group (whose t-shirts I'm proud to wear) here.

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Posted on 25 April, 2008 - 04:31