RE: Two Mindsets

Mark Ritchie (mritchie@iatp.org)
Sun, 08 Aug 1999 09:40:48 -0500

why not get out of the way and let people grow their own food?

At 04:57 AM 8/8/99 -0700, Cecile Mills wrote:
>Re: Two Mindsets, Two Visions of Sustainable Agriculture
>
>>I know that, even if there were plenty of food sent to starving
>>Africans, etc., those starving people would not get. it Somehow
>>the food would not get there or get there and rot on the docks, or
>>be grabbed by some greedy person who would keep it until it rotted
>>because the hungry poor could not afford it.
>>
>I read about this sequence of events in the early sixties in the book "The
>Ugly American." Since we haven't gotten a delivery system down pat in
>thirty years, perhaps we should help the government department(s)
>responsible for poor delivery by suggesting some solutions or paths to
>follow towards getting the food sent by well-meaning donatoss and unwilling
>tax payers to the intended recipient. If we can send a man to the moon,
>etc. etc.
>
>seaseal@got.net
>
>believe it just before you see it
>
>
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