- Sep 11, 2008
- 3 min
NPR Misses Real Story, Plants Wrong Seeds
Too bad. I depend a lot on NPR, so my heart sank as I listened to Morning Edition’s recent series on the world hunger crisis. Using...
- Jul 19, 2008
- 3 min
“Fantasy Dessert” Implicated in Worldwide Epidemic
If you Google “food scarcity,” you’ll find hundreds of thousands of links. It’s everywhere — including at the recent G8 Summit in Japan....
- Jul 16, 2008
- 3 min
Good Grief, Gordon Brown!
“Finish your supper, Francie, children are dying in China,” I heard growing up. It didn’t make sense to me then, and British Prime...
- Jul 12, 2008
- 3 min
Just Who’s Doing the Hoarding? Food Independence and Real Democracy
As about 30 countries scramble to protect their citizens from hunger by limiting food exports, the title of a front-page New York Times...