Re: Global Hunger is Increasing, UN Report Says

On 11/26/03 1:01 AM, in article [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Jim
Webster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> there are a handful of big oil companies who can determine the market, a
> group of member states who get together and plan these things. I forget how
> many million grain producers there are.
> 
> In the EU with CAP reform the land could well go out of agriculture into
> timber or such things as pony paddocks etc
> 
> Jim Webster


     The number of places farmers can sell their production is decreasing.
Something like 4 or 5 companies account for something like 80% of the U.S.
grain exported.  
  The number of meat packers also declining.  I don't know how many of those
are left.   
  If there is such a thing as a food cartel it might be somewhere in the
processing area.

                                                      Dean
  

      



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