tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36028082.post280745612967825089..comments2024-03-22T19:52:46.571+00:00Comments on SOCIALISM OR YOUR MONEY BACK: There Is No Over-population ProblemPoetry Coalshedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05514953133244910986noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36028082.post-83316206005083437662018-11-24T09:41:54.594+00:002018-11-24T09:41:54.594+00:00John Boyd Orr, former director of the Food and Agr...John Boyd Orr, former director of the Food and Agriculture Organisation, was candid in stating: ‘a world of peace and friendship, a world with the plenty which modern science had made possible was a great ideal. But those in power had <br />no patience with such an ideal. They said it was not practical politics’ (Daily Herald, 29 July 1948).<br />What Lord Boyd Orr failed to recognise - and his counterparts today - is that food, like every other commodity in our modern world, is produced primarily for profit, as this headline from Asia Times (31 October) attests:<br />'In Yemen, plenty of food but few have the cash to buy it'.<br />And:<br />'While agriculture and food distribution suffer from the war, food remains available in markets across the country - but few can afford it. "All kinds of food and other items are available in the market. The problem is not a shortage of food in markets but that we do not have money to buy food that is now expensive," Sofi said' (Middle East Eye, 9 November).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com