1.0 link 110107 <![CDATA[Just Who's Doing the Hoarding? Food Independence and Real Democracy]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/frances-moore-lappe/just-whos-doing-the-hoard_b_110107.html As about 30 countries scramble to protect their citizens from hunger by limiting food exports, the title of a front-page New York Times article calls out: "Hoarding Nations Drive Food Costs Ever Higher."

But where does responsible government action end and hoarding begin? (If the Irish government had begun a little hoarding instead of exporting grain in 1845, many deaths could have been avoided in the Irish potato famine.) It's not an easy question to answer, which suggests...

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