Agriculture Reference
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hungry people in your country, why don't you just make this sur-
plus available to them?”
The government official looked at us as if we suggested he do-
nate the Parliament building to the homeless. “Oh no, we couldn't
do that,” he said. “We already give too many subsidies to the poor.”
Now, when we hear someone claiming that hunger could be
wiped out if we only figured out how to produce more food—more
genetic modification! more chemical fertilizers!—we picture the
mountains of surplus we saw, and their fate to feed not hungry
mouths, but possibly farmed animals half a world away.