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Sunday, August 09, 2009

Food Is For People, Not For Lease

"We used to think that sovereignty was only about territorial authority of the political kind. Now we can see that it also has something to do with the food on our table."


Click on that quote to read the editorial. And for more background, there is this.
Posted by Algernon at 8:48 AM

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