Re: Global Hunger is Increasing, UN Report Says

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Jim Webster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>"Bruce Sinclair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
(snip)
>> >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

Very nasty indeed. :)

Bruce

-----------------------------------------------------------------------
It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to 
think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone´s fault. 
If it was Us, what did that make Me ? After all, I´m one of Us. I must be. 
I´ve certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No-one ever thinks 
of themselves as one of Them. We´re always one of Us. It´s Them that do 
the bad things.         <=> Terry Pratchett. Jingo.