Making money from the starving

Reblogged from Faith in Food:

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There is money to be made from hungry people - that is the unpalatable fact at the root of an article by journalist Graeme Green.

In the feature, which was published in the Metro newspaper in October 2012,  he says campaigners are claiming that financial investors are 'driving up prices and putting the lives of millions at risk' by betting on the world's food crisis.

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How do you reconcile a "free market" with driving instability in food prices that may leave many starving?

2 Responses

  1. I wouldn’t want any income to accrue to me through such a lowlife type of speculation-I find it really offensive.most commodity speculation is kind of vampiric.

  2. The British imported food from export farms in Ireland during the Irish Famine.

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