Re: food questoin

[David Lloyd-Jones <dlj@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gregoire de Nowell (ci-devant) wrote:
>
> Someone, in response to Blumenstock, said that apart from civil
> war regions there was not hunger in the world.
>
> A recently published article in the Troy Record (not usually
> known for opposing hegemonic discourse!) on hunger in Rennselaer
> County (wherein Troy lies) found that there were about 1500
> homes in which children routinely went to bed hungry and another
> 4500 which were at risk for same.

Greg,

Your quote is totally bogus.  My claim was that all hunger in the world
is associated with either civil war or mental illness.  Neither I nor
anyone else said the thing you have invented here.

Your New York story seems to me to support my view -- though I won't
hang my reputation on the survey techniques of the Troy Record.  You can
attribute hunger in America to mental illness among its sufferers and
their parents, gross madness in the political system, or some
combination.  I do not see how it can be attributed to technical,
ecological or economic factors: it is agriculture and economics which
have made the miracle of satiety possible.  America's major malnutrition
problem, however, is not going to bed hungry.  It is gettting too fat.

An incidental oddity for you: according to Ripley's Believe It or Not, a
source as reliable as anybody else for these things, perhaps more so
than your Trojans, the highest IQ cohort in the world are Japanese born
in 1943.  These people, though about five or eight inches taller than
their parents, were malnourished in the womb and went to bed hungry for
the first several years of their lives.

                                    -dlj.