Today more than 150 countries will celebrate World Food Day, whose theme this year is the right to food. The right to food may sound innocuous enough, but it's a direct affront to the reigning market fundamentalism both guiding and obfuscating U.S. food, farming, and international aid policies.
While we in the United States are still largely locked into this failing paradigm -- the market as sacred arbiter of economic outcomes -- people elsewhere are beginning to make the right to...
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