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Re: a variation of ag. dependence
"E. Ann Clark" <ACLARK@crop.uoguelph.ca> wrote:
>Steve B. I have often heard reference made to the notion that
>western countries have intentionally created dependence on the
>products of their agriculture in developing countries which were
>formerly - and presumably could still be - capable of feeding
>themselves from their own resources if we had not intervened.
>Without disputing this premise, may I ask you or others to direct me
>to evidence of the very best documented and most irrefutable example
>of where this was done?
I know of one such example that appeared in Britain a few years back and
may still be ongoing. The British Green Party boycoted the food company
Nestle for pushing their powered baby milk on 3rd world mothers, during
releaf feeding programs, to an extent that even mothers capable of breast
feeding their babies habitually used the product. When clean water, needed
to prepare these formulas, is in short supply it increases the dangers to
the
children.
Dave Lloyd, Walsall RCC. Any views expressed are my own, - my club doesn't
seem to
have any.
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