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>From: nettime's roving male bov!nez <nettime@bbs.thing.net> > >Janitors for Justice <http://www.seiu.org/j4j/> > >Tech's Janitors Rally for Wages >by Leander Kahney >4:30 p.m. Apr. 27, 2000 PDT >http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,35790,00.html problema != ceo.z problema = Felix Stalder <stalder@fis.utoronto.ca> + wired.ss wired.com = Felix Stalder <stalder@fis.utoronto.ca> = nettime's roving male bov!nez <nettime@bbs.thing.net> the existence of malnourished and hungry people has been used repeatedly in this journal and elsewhere as a justification for biotechnology and for the production of more food. this assumption supports a main policy plank of the rockefeller foundation food biotechnology programme and other major interna-tional and charitable institutions. yet there are good reasons to be sceptical of the equation "more food equals less hunger". the world produces more than enough food at present to feed everyone, but never-theless many people still starve or are mal-nourished as economist and nobel laureate amartya sen has pointed out, it is poverty, not a physical shortage of food, that is the primary cause of hunger in the modern world the political and economic reasons don't change: the amount of food that ireland, for example, exported to britain during the potato famine of 1845-46 would have been sufficient to feed those who starved. 0 0 0 || KORPORAT KR!EG MACHT 3k0R KUNST N[>] IMF - the International Meme Fund - shear pathway to the core. - promoting meme development. lokomotion. + reinvestment. - meme sekurity + meme transaktions. [>] ||||||||||||||||||||| rekurrent exc!tat!on || |||||||| membank.org – – – – – – – – – – – – Ò – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – pro satisfacer le metro – – Ò – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – < 0\ zve!te[z]!ztem \1 > _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold