[Griff]

I'd say hunger and terrorism are both symtoms of failed economies. The question is to what extent can the third world develop economies with first world interference? The US public wants to do right by them, seeing in our over-production a chance to feed the world. As we maintain our food programs we squash individual third world farmers who need a market. We do not and cannot have enough market information to manage the worlds food supply. The American press generally sells it as a win win situation which is good for american agriculture and good for the third world, when in fact it is the opposite, destroying the flexibility and openess of the American market and maintaining a dependent overseas population. Instead of putting our overproduction of grain into meat we move production higher. We feed cattle with our regular production and then our overproduction is shipped overseas to disrupt their market places. This means that when we have a down production year, instead of fewer cattle being fattened in the US, we have fewer human beings being fed in the third world.