Re: Global Hunger is Increasing, UN Report Says

"Bruce Sinclair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
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> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Jim Webster"
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> >"Bruce Sinclair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
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> > > >I have no problem with Bruces point, indeed it is one I have put
forward
> >> >myself. I just point out that with falling output and consumption that
is
> >> >static or rising, distribution may well not be the only problem.
> >>
> >> Quite so. I guess I have the general and continuing fall in commodity
> >> (in this case food) prices generally in the back of my mind  ...
> >> meaning or implying that we have lots of it (or the price would be
> >> higher).
> >
> >or it means that there are too few purchasers for the market to operate
> >properly.
>
> Agreed.
>
> >High prices in the international market do not necessarily knock on to
high
> >prices at the farm gate.
>
> Agreed. Happens very rarely from what I've seen.
>
> >Indeed prices at the retail level in the UK are so high that the price of
> >wheat could double and bread prices need not chance noticably for the
> >consumer. In fact between last year and this year, wheat virtually did
this
>
> Nasty. Someone (a middleman presumably ?) is making a pot of money
> somewhere :)

simple. In the UK supermarkets are major contributors to party funds and at
one time a senior member of one supermarket family (Sainsbury) was a
minister in one party while the party chairman of the other party was past
Chief executive of another supermarket chain.
Supermarkets were sponsoring badges at party conferences etc etc. Money
talks

Jim Webster