Posted on July 23, 2008
As the food crisis in Haiti worsens — and rice and bean prices have increased 100 percent — many turn to clay ‘biscuits’ as a source of food. The clay is mixed with salt and vegetable fat, then dried in the sun. Let Them Eat Free MarketsHow deregulation fuels the global food crisisBy David MobergIn April, crowds of angry Haitians — reduced to eating mud cakes to staunch hunger — erupted in deadly protests against high food prices, forcing the prime minister to resign. The price of rice, a staple of the Haitian diet, had risen 16 percent on the world market last year, then shot up 141 percent from January to April. Around the world, similar riots — or fears of them — have pushed governments… more books movies musicCultureFood FightsGlobally, 1 billion overweight people coexist with 800 million starving people. That's one of many perverse facts in Stuffed & Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System (Melville House, April 2008, U.S.… more Reading The Onion SeriouslyCombining irreverent humor and acerbic critique, a handful of new media outlets -- including The Onion -- are transforming American politics and culture, writes Theodoe Hamm, in his new book The New Blue Media.After 9/11, The Onion stopped its presses for one week. The hiatus allowed the paper to show its respect for the gravity of what had happened in lower Manhattan. But it also enabled its… more Our Imperfect UnionsPick almost any metric -- fraction of workers in unions, lag of pay behind productivity increases, growing hours of work, rising economic insecurity -- and it's obvious that American workers and their unions are… more |
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