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Who's cashing in on the high price of food?
With food riots raging, let's open the books on the finances of Big Ag |
Anna Lappe |
18 Apr 2008 |
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| When we talk about the crisis in food prices, we should scrape below the surface to explore who's actually benefiting from the crisis. Unless you've had your head stuck in the freezer at Dean & Deluca, you've heard about the food crisis across the planet. A recent Financial Times displayed this staggering map of the globe: Black dots marked each of the countries were food riots have been sparked in outrage against the rising prices of food. Thirty dots in all. ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, Big Ag, biofuels, business, food, World Bank (all these topics) |
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